Tagged: 50th

air force / Airshow / Special Aviation Events / Special Color Schemes

September 18, 2021

JASDF 50th Anniversary Photo Album

The 50th Anniversary of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force occurred in 2004. Masaki Komatsu shares some of the colors from that year here, in a scrapbook. You can hover over the photo to check the type, or click for...

Air Transports / Airbus / Airliners / Helicopters / military / Transports

June 15, 2019

Airbus Celebrates Their 50th Year in Business; Delivers Their 12,000th Aircraft

Air Tahiti Nui A-340-300 At the big Paris Air Show of 1969, a collaboration between two countries with rich aviation histories signaled the beginning of what is known today as the Airbus company. Fifty years later, in 2019, Airbus...

air racing / featured

July 19, 2013

Reno Air Races 1964 to 50th Anniversary

There have been few events in sports that manage to last 50 years. Fortunately the National Championship Air Races at Reno are one of them. This year will mark the 50th running of this race during September 11th-15th...

demo teams / fighters / military

August 17, 2012

50th Anniversary Abbotsford Air Show!

It was August 11th and 12th 1962 when the very first airplanes took to the skies at Abbotsford International for an airshow. Fifty years later the show goes on, attracting demo teams from around the world to perform at...