Air Zoo to Complete Unique Douglas SBD-1 Dauntless Restoration
Air Zoo to Complete Unique Douglas SBD-1 Dauntless Restoration
The SBD-1 Dauntless exhibited at AirVenture 2021. Photo by Job Savage
Douglas Dauntless SBD-1 BuNo. 1612, the sole surviving example of its variant, was expected to arrive at the Air Zoo’s Flight Discovery Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan today, August 2
nd, 2021. The museum’s highly respected restoration team will complete the full restoration of this historic aircraft, making it the third example of the breed which they have tackled thus far and the fourth aircraft recovered from Lake Michigan which they have worked on.
Irvine invites Marine aviation museum to return to El Toro
Retired Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Michael Aguilar, executive director of the Flying Leathernecks Historical Foundation, poses for a portrait in front of a historic WWII hangar at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine.
(Kevin Chang / Staff Photographer)
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U.S. Marine Corps jets and helicopters could return to the decommissioned Marine Corps Air Station El Toro following an agreement inked by the Irvine City Council on Tuesday.
The Flying Leathernecks Historical Foundation has proposed refurbishing a 215,000-square-foot hangar at Orange County Great Park into a new home for its aviation museum currently on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. In March, Marine officials permanently shuttered the museum after reallocating more than $460,000 annually spent on its operation toward higher-priority missions.
Pima Air Museum Adds F-5E Tiger II and C-23B+ Sherpa
Pima Air Museum Adds F-5E Tiger II and C-23B+ Sherpa
The Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona has recently added two new aircraft to their world-class collection of aircraft and historical aeronautica, a former U.S. Navy Northrop F-5E Tiger II (Bu.741564) and a ex-US Army Short C-23B+ Sherpa (94-0310). The Tiger II is on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum, but until recently it had been on display at the sadly-now-shuttered Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum near MCAS Miramar in San Diego, California.
The Marine Corps will no longer fund the joint venture that kept the doors open for its only aviation-focused museum: the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum in San Diego.
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