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Fokker 100 for Aviodrome Theme Park Museum  23 June 2010

Fokker 100 for Aviodrome Theme Park Museum 23 June 2010

One of the many airline companies operating the successful Fokker 100 is KLM. Although Fokker went already bankrupt in 1996 their aircraft continued to fly, without doubt also for many years in the future. However, because of increasing maintenance costs KLM has decided to terminate its use of this very versatile plane. They will be [...]

Hawker Hurricane Mk IVRP in Museum of Aviation in Belgrade- Serbia

Hawker Hurricane Mk IVRP in Museum of Aviation in Belgrade- Serbia

The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. Some production of the Hurricane was carried out in Canada by the Canada Car and Foundry Co Ltd. Although largely overshadowed by the Supermarine Spitfire, the aircraft became renowned during the Battle of Britain.The 1930s design [...]

Aviodrome Theme Park Museum Gets Gloster Meteor!

Aviodrome Theme Park Museum Gets Gloster Meteor!

On 17 February 2009 a Gloster Meteor F.8 was donated to the Aviodrome Theme Park Museum. at Lelystad Airport. It was donated by mr. Aart van Wijk, a former Meteor pilot. The Meteor F.8 served at the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu) until it was phased out in 1958 when it was succeeded by the Hawker Hunter. [...]

SBLim-2 at Cavanaugh

SBLim-2 at Cavanaugh

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 Fagot (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-15) was a jet fighter developed for the USSR by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. The MiG-15 was one of the first successful swept-wing jet fighters, and it achieved fame in the skies over Korea, where early in the war, it outclassed all enemy fighters. The MiG-15 [...]

Bournemouth Aviation Museum

Bournemouth Aviation Museum

Bournemouth Aviation Museum is the only UK Charitable Museum dedicated to preserving and presenting to the public at large, amongst others, operational examples of historic aircraft appreciated by the many hundreds of thousands attending UK airshows. Bournemouth Aviation Museum Bournemouth Aviation Museum occupies a 30,000 sq ft hanger at Bournemouth International Airport and is run [...]

Gatwick Air Museum

Gatwick Air Museum

The Gatwick Aviation Museum is located on the boundary of London Gatwick Airport in the village of Charlwood, Surrey. Originally started in 1987 by Peter Vallance a local businessman as a private collection. It became a registered charity in 1999 with the objective of providing awareness of local aviation history and as an educational centre [...]

Air Show at Cuatro Vientos 2006

Air Show at Cuatro Vientos 2006

Air Show at Cuatro Vientos is the largest one held in the Spain and images present event held on 3rd September 2006. This is very interesting place to see very rich collection of the airplanes. Images bellow show followings airplanes: Air Show at Cuatro Vientos 2006 Piper L-14 Cub s/n 45-55531 (EC-AAP), Bucker Bu-133c Jungmeister [...]

City of Norwich Aviation Museum

City of Norwich Aviation Museum

One of the many of museums in the UK is this small one- City of Norwich Aviation Museum. This Museum is located just off the A140 Norwich to Cromer road, on the north side of Norwich airport. This nice small collection have following airplanes present on images bellow: Lightning Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star s/n 51-6718, [...]

Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum

Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum have in it’s collection a lot of the reserved warplanes. Following aircraft are present on the images bellow: North American F-100D Super Sabre s/n 54-2196, Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star s/n 55-4433, Dassault Mystere IVA s/n 79, North American T-28 Trojan s/n 146289, FMA IA58 Pucara s/n A528, Supermarine Spitfire (replica) [...]