03-27-2021
The Fighter Factory has finalized the plan for the restoration of our Dauntless! The components will be split up to accelerate the project. The wings will be restored by the team at Aero Trader, while the fuselage is going to the dedicated team at Pioneer Aero in Ardmore, New Zealand! Pioneer Aero recently completed the…
03-11-2021
For the past 30 years, Kevin Smith (pictured at right) has been working on an SBD project of his own, aimed at celebrating the type’s incredible wartime contributions. We are pleased to announce that Kevin’s unequalled collection of parts, including a set of wings, will now contribute to the restoration of our Dauntless! We send…
03-01-2021
We are pleased to welcome Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless BuNo 36175 to the collection at the Military Aviation Museum. The airframe was recovered from the bottom of Lake Michigan where it had sat since a training accident in January, 1944. Join us throughout the month of March to view the airplane before the restoration process begins….
11-08-2020
Not every project we work on or acquire for the Museum is an airplane! As part of our goal to recreate the experience of visiting a vintage airfield we are constantly on the lookout for ground vehicles that can get us closer to that goal! The dream is that someday the airplanes would be moved…
10-25-2020
Thundering into the sky for an excited Summer of Flight crowd, the “Turkey” is back! Although it has taken several years, the team at the Fighter Factory has completed the restoration of our Avenger! After an unfortunate mishap several years ago the aircraft required extensive overhaul. The restoration process was extended by the need to…
08-13-2020
The Museum’s venerable Stearman was among the first aircraft in the collection. After a number of years providing memorable rides over the oceanfront to Museum visitors we decided to take it out of service, to conduct a thorough restoration on the aircraft. After several months spent re-covering the aircraft, and going over all of the…
04-10-2015
The Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia has just test run a modern replica of the Argus As 014 pulse-jet engine used on a WWII-era Fiesler Fi-103, perhaps better known as the V-1 ‘Doodlebug’ or ‘Buzz Bomb’. The V-1, as most of you will know, was one of Hitler’s “Vengeance Weapons” with which the…
05-17-2014
The Military Aviation Museum took delivery of a North American P-64 replica at the Military Aviation Museum in Pungo, Virginia. Just in time to take part in Warbirds Over the Beach 2014, the Museum’s annual air show, the aircraft flew in from her previous owner’s home in Louise, Texas. She made two spirited low passes…
05-07-2013
The historic first flight of KA 114 in the United States on May 7, 2013. Photograph by Fighter Factory Mechanic Jon Brawner. Warbird enthusiasts from around the world have been following the progress of the Military Aviation Museum’s de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito, from its shipment from New Zealand to the announcement of its first public…