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Airplane Restoration

Repairing and restoring old or damaged aircraft
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Nakajima B5N Kate bomber

A Pearl Harbor Mystery

How a 1940s Interstate Cadet trainer sent a famous airshow pilot on a journey to find a kindred spirit.
January 2012 | By John Fleischman

Tragedy at Reno

What it was like in the pits that day.
September 19, 2011 | By Linda Shiner

An emotional Gene Breiner (at lectern, with daughter Joyce and General Jack Dailey, director of the National Air and Space Museum) donated Plane Jane to the Museum this past June in hopes of inspiring future pilots.

In the Museum: A Fleet’s Final Flight

A civilian flight trainer enters the collections.
September 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Giuseppe Genchi, who found a trove of engine parts at the University of Palermo, spent countless hours restoring an 11-cylinder rotary engine from World War I.

Genchi’s Obsession

A grad student in Italy salvages Germany's rarest World War I airplane engines.
August 2011 | By Andrew Lawler

Last November the Curtiss SB2C 5 moved into its new digs at the Museum’s Steven F Udvar Hazy Center where it awaits restoration

In the Museum: Wanted: TLC for Misunderstood Warbird

Challenging the Helldiver’s bad reputation.
July 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

The postwar 11AC Chief (with a side of cheesecake) had 75 percent of parts in common with the Champion.

Flying Bathtubs Sell Like Hotcakes

The nation's first mass-produced lightplane started as a homely, humble homebuilt.
November 2010 | By Giles Lambertson

The Gosh of Oshkosh

Scenes from aviation's annual pilgrimage.
August 16, 2010 | By Caroline Sheen

Purists point out that the present incarnation of B-36J no. 52-2827 isn’t 100 percent accurate.

Monster Bomber

At the Pima Air and Space Museum, the B-36 is the largest U.S. warplane ever rebuilt.
August 2010 | By The Editors

The 609th Air Commando Squadron flew out of Nakhon Phanom airfield in eastern Thailand.

Truck Killer

For one mission in Vietnam, the best aircraft for the job was a bomber from World War II.
July 2010 | By David Lande

Antique aircraft enthusiasts Frank Pavliga and Ted Davis tinker with the Ford Model A engine on the Pietenpol Air Camper that has become a community property within the Brodhead Pietenpol Association.

The One-Dollar Pietenpol

Some airplanes, like some friendships, improve with age.
March 2010 | By Linda Shiner

The Horten Ho 229 V3 awaits restoration at the National Air and Space Museum

The Luftwaffe’s Flying Wing

The Horten Ho 229 is on the short list for restoration at the Air and Space Museum.
January 11, 2010 | By Rebecca Maksel

An all-volunteer crew works on the Museums Junior

In The Museum: The Thursday Regulars

January 2010 | By Rebecca Maksel

John Magda (mounting his Blue Angel Panther in 1950)

Restoration: Kentucky Panther

Grumman's first jet honors a son of the Bluegrass State.
January 2010 | By Barrett Tillman

Various Stages of painting the Aviation Heritage Park Panther F9F-2 as it starts to receive official Blue Angels paint. All work was done at the hanger and paint was donated by PPG Aerospace.

Panther Paint Job

Watch a 57-year-old warbird go from Winona rags to Blue Angel royalty.
November 17, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

Hawker Hurricane at the NASM Udvar-Hazy Center. Smithsonian NASM Udvar-Hazy Center Photo By Dane A. Penland

Sightings: Hazy's Hits

A photo gallery of airplanes at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center.
November 17, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

Restoration: Beech Staggerwing

A true story with an O.Henry ending.
May 2009 | By Mark Huber

A worker does a final paint touchup before the Gee Bee

Bring Back the Brute

A GeeBee racer in flyable condition? Don’t do it.
March 2009 | By ROBERT BERNIER

Kentmorr airpark resident Anne Fichera owns a 1966 Thunderbird and a 1958 Aeronca

A Walk in the Airpark

Rest and renewal in a long-standing pilot community.
March 2009 | By Del Wilber

So popular is the Navion that airplane lvoers consider a complete restoration, like David Peters

Accidental Classic

From the designers who brought you the P-51 Mustang, an airplane with a complicated past…and a controversial present.
November 2008 | By Mark Huber

Memphis Belle

Restoration: The Memphis Belle

For this famous B-17, surviving 25 missions in World War II was the easy part.
November 2008 | By Mark Bernstein


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