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Flying Magazine • Meg Godlewski

A-10C Warthog Flies Home: Hagerstown Aviation Museum to Receive Aircraft on Sept. 22, 2025

A Fairchild A-10C Thunderbolt II will fly to Hagerstown, Maryland on Sept. 22, 2025 — the aircraft's birthplace — where it will join the Hagerstown Aviation Museum's collection as a public exhibit, becoming the Warthog's permanent display in the city where it was built.

2025-09-08T13:46:01.928741-07:00

Ars Technica

NASA to Send Retired Shuttle to Houston but Keeps Orbiter Choice Under Wraps

2025-08-06T05:39:39.784502-07:00

Space.com

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Reopens Five Reimagined Galleries Featuring SpaceX Hardware and Mars Habitat

2025-07-28T14:05:33.443991-07:00

CNN

Enthusiasts Revive de Havilland Comet, the World’s First Jet Airliner

2025-07-29T03:59:39.259794-07:00

Aerospace Museums News Timeline

vintageaviationnews.com

Wisk's Gen5 Autonomous eVTOL Cora Enters EAA Aviation Museum Innovations Gallery Wisk's Gen 5 eVTOL, Cora — the autonomous demonstrator that performed historic flights for more than 200,000 spectators at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023 — is now on public display in the EAA Aviation Museum's Innovations Gallery, preserving a milestone in autonomous advanced air mobility.

2025-09-15T07:15:16.777970-07:00

Wisk's Gen5 Autonomous eVTOL Cora Enters EAA Aviation Museum Innovations Gallery

ffxnow.com

Smithsonian to Add 44,000 sq ft to Udvar‑Hazy’s Boeing Aviation Hangar — First Major Expansion Since 2003 The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will add 44,000 sq ft to the Boeing Aviation Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar‑Hazy Center near Dulles — its first major public‑space expansion since 2003; the work will boost artifact display capacity and improve visitor experience.

2025-09-09T18:41:03.452529-07:00

Smithsonian to Add 44,000 sq ft to Udvar‑Hazy’s Boeing Aviation Hangar — First Major Expansion Since 2003

General Aviation News

Flying Tigers documentary to premiere at Seattle’s Museum of Flight on Sept. 13, 2025 On Sept. 13, 2025, the Museum of Flight in Seattle will host the premiere screening of a new documentary about the Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group that flew combat missions over China during World War II. The film features archival footage and interviews chronicling the unit's wartime operations and legacy.

2025-09-09T07:17:33.565502-07:00

Flying Tigers documentary to premiere at Seattle’s Museum of Flight on Sept. 13, 2025

Flying Magazine

A-10C Warthog Flies Home: Hagerstown Aviation Museum to Receive Aircraft on Sept. 22, 2025 A Fairchild A-10C Thunderbolt II will fly to Hagerstown, Maryland on Sept. 22, 2025 — the aircraft's birthplace — where it will join the Hagerstown Aviation Museum's collection as a public exhibit, becoming the Warthog's permanent display in the city where it was built.

2025-09-08T13:46:01.928741-07:00

A-10C Warthog Flies Home: Hagerstown Aviation Museum to Receive Aircraft on Sept. 22, 2025

The Aviationist

Airframe BF-01 — First F-35B Transported by CH-53K — To Be Retired and Preserved at MCAS Beaufort Airframe BF-01, the F-35B test jet that performed the type’s first vertical landing on Mar. 18, 2010 and first vertical takeoff on May 10, 2013, has been transported by a CH-53K to MCAS Beaufort and will be retired from flight test and preserved as a static display there.

2025-08-31T11:20:50.237859-07:00

Airframe BF-01 — First F-35B Transported by CH-53K — To Be Retired and Preserved at MCAS Beaufort

Business Insider

Minuteman II missile procedures trainer on display at National Museum of the US Air Force Visitors to the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio can tour the Minuteman II missile procedures trainer — a once top‑secret simulator where Air Force crews rehearsed Cold War launch and doomsday procedures. The exhibit preserves operational practices behind America’s land‑based nuclear deterrent.

2025-08-31T10:48:42.357205-07:00

Minuteman II missile procedures trainer on display at National Museum of the US Air Force

greenbaypressgazette.com

How a northwest Wisconsin nonprofit preserves helicopters and the stories of their fliers The Helicopter Conservancy in New Richmond, Wisconsin, is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving helicopters and the stories of the pilots and crews who flew them. Its mission centers on collecting, conserving and interpreting airframes and personal histories to safeguard rotary‑wing heritage for future generations.

2025-08-29T06:09:43.447477-07:00

How a northwest Wisconsin nonprofit preserves helicopters and the stories of their fliers

worldwarwings.com

World’s only airworthy WWI bomber, the Airco DH.9, listed for sale — last surviving flyer of Britain’s Imperial Gift Scheme Platinum Fighter Sales has listed the Airco DH.9, the world’s only original World War I bomber still flying, putting a one-of-a-kind aircraft — the last surviving flyer from Britain’s postwar Imperial Gift Scheme — on the market, a living link between early strategic air power and today.

2025-08-27T15:40:42.177177-07:00

World’s only airworthy WWI bomber, the Airco DH.9, listed for sale — last surviving flyer of Britain’s Imperial Gift Scheme

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