KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — One FM-2 Wildcat fighter plane that currently resides at Air Zoo has seen better days. The aircraft has spent the past nearly 80 years either at the bottom of Lake Michigan ...
The Planes of Fame Air Museum has a rich collection of WWII aircraft kept in airworthy condition, such as their Mitsubishi A6M Zero (whose story you can read here: Planes of Fame’s A6M5 Zero, The Last ...
The A6M3 Model 32 Zero was resurrected by combining the damaged remains of two aircraft found at Taroa island in the Marshall Islands in early 1990. A Second World War A6M3 Model 32 (Reisen) Zero ...
Docent Ashby Taylor tells the story behind the World War II SB2C Helldiver dive bomber inside WestPac Restorations while giving a tour Wednesday, July 24, 2025, at the National World War II Aviation ...
The restoration of Glacier Girl a P38 Lighting nears completion. On Friday, Feb. 8, 2001 the plane waits for completion . The jacket in the case in middle of the picture is a US Air Corps 1942 issued ...
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (WOWT) - Winds sweeping through Iowa Saturday halted a planned flight of a restored 1940 PT-19 World War II-era plane at the Council Bluffs Airport. The plan was an orientation ...
The P-51 Mustang is remembered as a World War II icon, but its story did not end in 1945. This film follows the Mustang, the ...
DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) - The Commemorative Air Force is offering flights and tours of several World War II aircraft at the Dubuque Regional Airport. One of the aircraft on display is the B-29 ...
The Champaign Aviation Museum has expanded to create additional hangar space and opportunities for new programs and exhibits. A ribbon cutting for the new expanded space will be held at 1 p.m.
In 1944, a Russian IL-2 warplane was shot down by the Germans near the town of Pustoshka in the western Soviet Union. It crash-landed on a frozen lake. And when the ice melted, the plane sank to the ...