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Aerobatics / Airshow / fighters / Helicopters / U.S. Marines

1 Jun, 2019

MCAS Yuma Airshow Starts the 2019 Air Show Season With a Bang

March 8th and 9th, 2019 Marine Corps Air Station Yuma kicked off the west coast air show season March 8th with a two-day air show event. Since 1962, the Yuma Airshow has been a...

EAA / friends / published / Reno

25 May, 2019

Mark Hrutkay Has Gone West

We have lost one of our own here at Photorecon.net (and ClassicWarbirds.net and CivilAviationWorld.com and Motorecon.net). Editor, writer and photographer Mark Hrutkay passed away unexpectedly on May 10, 2019 at age 59. Although many...

Air Force Reserve / military / NOAA / Special Aviation Events / Transports

25 May, 2019

How Aviation Helps Us to Prepare For the “Big One”

A week-long travelling road show (well, actually a travelling air show) began a five-state presentation at Rhode Island’s Quonset State Airport on May 6th, 2019. The event took a multi-faceted approach to hurricane preparedness;...

2017 Sail Boston / Aircraft carrier / Airshow / Boeing / demo teams / fighters / U.S. Navy

18 May, 2019

Super Hornets!

This is Part 3 of a multi-part history of the McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F/A-18 Hornet/Super Hornet… more to come next month! The US Navy then looked for an actual successor to the aged Grumman F-14 Tomcat,...

Aerobatics / Airshow / Blue Angels / fighters / Helicopters / military / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy / warbirds

11 May, 2019

Naval Air Facility El Centro 2019 Air Show

One of the first air shows of the year is held at Naval Air Facility El Centro in the Imperial Valley. In addition, NAF El Centro has long been the winter training home of...

Airshow / bombers / Civil aviation / demo teams / military / U.S. Air Force / USAF Thunderbirds / warbirds

11 May, 2019

Wings Over Wayne 2019

Seymour Johnson Air Force Base hosted their bi-annual airshow, Wings Over Wayne (WOW) on April 27th and 28th. The 4th Fighter Wing and the 916th Air Refueling Wing were the hosts and the show...

Air Transports / Airliners

5 May, 2019

A Trip Down Memory Lane, Part 2

How many of these airlines do you remember, or have flown on? The airlines in this set of photos have not only ceased to operate as brands, but many of their aircraft pictured here...

Air National Guard / Air Transports / Aviation History / Base Visits / military / Special Aviation Events

4 May, 2019

New Hampshire’s Air National Guard Continues to Adapt to New Missions

Final NHANG KC-135R departs from Portsmouth NH (Scott Zeno photo) The New Hampshire Air National Guard’s (NHANG) 133rd Air Refueling Squadron (ARS), part of the 157th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) has been in the...

Aerobatics / Airshow / Blue Angels / fighters / military / Special Events / U.S. Navy / warbirds

26 Apr, 2019

A LOOK BACK AT OCEANA – 2018’s Show With Planes and STEMS

Naval Air Station Oceana is a pretty secure place. Unless you have business here, you’re never going to get in……except for one weekend each year when Oceana opens up its Main Gate to the...

Airshow / Chino California / Korean War / Special Aviation Events / Viet Nam / warbirds / World War II

26 Apr, 2019

Chino’s 2019 Planes of Fame Air Show is Right Around the Corner!

The Planes of Fame Air Museum has two branches, one in Arizona, the other and oldest, is in Chino, California. On the weekend of May 4-5th, 2019, their annual air show, chock full of...