Story and photos by Shawn Byers The United States Marine Corps retired the last of their world famous Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing (V/STOL) AV-8B Harrier II attack aircraft on 3 June 2026. The primary mission of Marine Aviation is...
Spirit Airlines’ original color scheme on a DC-9-21 at Boston Massachusetts Story by Ken Kula, photos by William Ellison and Ken Kula Spirit Airlines can trace its roots back to Charter One Airlines, which began operations in 1983. Well...
All photos by John Freedman Here are more aircraft photos by John Fedeedman, this time featuring single radial-engined airplanes. Yak 18 Antonov AN-2 Hudson, CAC Wirraway and pair of Harvards Corsair Wildcat and Corsair Gee Bee QED replica Lavochkin...
Photos and story by Scott Jankowski Editor’s note: This article went missing from these pages a few years ago… it is reprinted in its entirety to add to our 15-year-old database. It was anything but sunny when N826SY, a...
Mohawk Convair 240 at Las Vegas McCarran Airport, March 13, 1968 Story and Photos by Don Linn What many would say is a last-minute reprieve, as of this writing at least, the last Convairliner, a stretched CV-5800, C-GKFS, with...
F-35A Lightning II Arrival at the 104th Fighter Wing 11 June 2026 1:04 PM Story and photos by Ken Middleton At exactly 1:04 PM on 11 June 2026, 4 F-35A Lightning II’s in formation roared over Barnes Air National...
DC-6, Universal, N661TA, PHL Cargo City, Nov 1990 Photography by Don Linn, Scott Jankowski, Bob Finch and Ken Kula Lockheed L-1649A-98 Starliner Originally a U. S. Army C-47, it was converted to a Douglas DC-3C after World War II...
Cessna’s (Textron Aviation) Citation CJ2+ Story and photos by Don Linn Business jets are an important tool for doing business in today’s increasingly competitive world for several reasons. Foremost, for many corporations and companies, especially those with multi-office locations,...
Florida Air National Guard Convair C-131D Samaritan Photos by Don Linn, Scott Jankowski, Tim Adams, Del Laughery, Bob Finch and Ken Kula Here’s a scrapbook of military multi radial-engined aircraft… including transports, bombers, fighters and patrol planes. A few...
“AA-100” is a Grumman F-14D Tomcat assigned to the Navy’s VF-11 fighter squadron. One or two aircraft in a Navy or Marine Corps squadron wear what has been called CAG (Carrier Air Group) colors, … special markings denoting a...
Chrono Aviation’s B-737-247 Advanced model with unimproved runway compressed air pipes in front of the engine intakes. Photos by Scott Jankowski, Shawn Byers, Don Linn Here’s the second part of our look at the early versions of Boeing’s B-737....
Story and photos by Ken Kula New Hampshire’s Alton Bay Ice Runway has completed its 2026 winter operations with a record-setting season. Alton Bay (Airport ID is B18) is operated by the State of New Hampshire’s Department of Transportation...
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