The aircraft would be modified after the conflict as the Gloster Meteor F.4, which would become the first jet aircraft to be ...

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

Not every experimental jet fighter made by the U.S. military would go on to reach production, for any number of reasons.

Sixty years ago, a story about a monkey who visited Litchfield appeared in the Independent Review. The story, “Nicaraguan makes many friends,” was published on Dec. 31, 1953, ...

Peering out the hangar doors at the Chico Air Museum is a bright yellow 1943 Fairchild PT-26, the kind of plane that gave ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

In 2024, the Polish premium car dealer La Squadra and the famed designer Zagato partnered to create the AGTZ Twin Tail. The model uses the modern Alpine A110 as the underpinnings, and the design ...

It would go down as one of the biggest carrier battles of World War II. Japan lost three aircraft carriers and more than 300 planes. On Saipan, the Marines and army faced an enemy well dug-in and ...

Hundreds of that kind of plane occupied Chico’s runway during 1942 as the Chico Army Airfield trained pilots for World War II. To Mueller’s knowledge, PT-26s did not call Chico home during the ...

Production struggles at Boeing and Airbus have forced airlines around the world to cut routes and spend more to keep older planes flying, even as travel demand soars. Airlines reeling from delays ...

Plane model: The missing plane was a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX with tail number N321BA, according to FlightRadar24. Cessna’s website says, “The Grand Caravan® EX turboprop was engineered ...