Hawaii Mars arrives at BC Aviation Museum
The Martin Mars C-FLYL ‘Hawaii Mars’ water bomber completed its final flight on August 11, 2024, en route to its new home at the British Columbia (BC) Aviation Museum in Victoria.
Vought Corsair biplane completed
Fifteen years after construction began, the Grand Prairie, Texas-based Vought Heritage Foundation recently completed a reproduction Vought O3U‑3 Corsair floatplane, a type that originally went into US Navy service in the patrol and observation role during 1932.
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Yorkshire Air Museum ‘Hurricane’ honours French night-fighter hero
Elvington’s Yorkshire Air Museum (YAM) has repainted its full-scale Hawker Hurricane replica into a night-fighter scheme to honour Lt Col Yves Mahé, a French pilot that served with 253 Squadron.
UK museum Mosquito nears restoration completion
Nearly 50 years after one man’s vision set in train a series of international acquisitions, the static restoration of Mosquito FBVI TA122 is approaching completion at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum
Yak-3 flies to new home
Yakovlev Yak-3UA G-OLEG arrived at Wellesbourne Mountford near Stratford-upon-Avon on 19 July, following its acquisition from Leicestershire-based Cirrus Aircraft UK by Andrew Holman West’s Russian Radials.
74 ‘Tiger’ Squadron Lightnings in the Far East – the inside story
No 74 ‘Tiger’ Squadron had many firsts to its name during the Lightning era. When it flew its Lightning F6s to a new home at RAF Tengah in Singapore, it made the type’s longest deployment to date — and some memorable years in the Far East were to follow
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SCENERY REVIEW FOR MSFS 2020. Two airports in the north from the renowned scenery makers.
RAF F-35s on QRA in Iceland
The Royal Air Force’s F-35B Lightning is currently holding NATO Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) in Iceland.