- Air Force: New Zealand - Air Force
- Aircraft: Bristol 170 Freighter Mk31M
- Registration: NZ5903 / 03 (cn 12834)
- Views: 530
- Location: Wigram (NZWG) , New Zealand December 3, 2010
For some 22 years the Freighters of No.41 Squadron, RNZAF, provided sterling service in the conflict zones of South East Asia. NZ5903 spent her last operational days with No.1 Squadron at Whenuapai. NZ5903 is seen here with her clamshell doors opened.
- Air Force: New Zealand - Air Force
- Aircraft: Bristol 170 Freighter Mk31M
- Registration: NZ5903 / 03 (cn 12834)
- Views: 580
- Location: Wigram (NZWG) , New Zealand December 3, 2010
The Mk.31M Freighter was the military variant of the Mk.21 with provision for supply dropping. The large clamshell doors of the Freighter provided easy access to the (unpressurised) main hold, which had an internal volume of 2,020 cubic feet.
- Air Force: Private - The Fighter Collection
- Aircraft: Supermarine 379 Spitfire FR.XIVe
- Registration: G-SPIT / MV268 / JE-J (cn 6S/649205) Aircraft Info
- Views: 608
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England May 5, 2011
MV293 with its 36.7 litre RR Griffon 65 being prepared for the 2011 display season in the TFC hangar. The Spitfire is now based at Sywell aerodrome with Anglia Aircraft Restorations Ltd., still in her J.E. 'Johnnie' Johnson colours, with serial MV268.
- Air Force: New Zealand - Air Force
- Aircraft: Lockheed Hudson III
- Registration: NZ2013 / YZ-R (cn 414-3826)
- Views: 391
- Location: Wigram (NZWG) , New Zealand December 3, 2010
NZ2013 (RAF serial V9241) served with No.4 Squadron, RNZAF, flying from Nausori air base, Fiji in early 1942. The Hudson III is on display at Wigram since 1996 in 4 Squadron c/s and coded 'YZ-R'.
- Air Force: New Zealand - Air Force
- Aircraft: Curtiss P-40F Warhawk
- Registration: 41-14205 / NZ3024 / FE-L (cn 17421)
- Views: 487
- Location: Wigram (NZWG) , New Zealand December 3, 2010
Former 18th FG P-40F in the process of being converted to Allison V-1710 engined P-40E in Wigram's Hangar 3, to represent RNZAF Kittyhawk Ia NZ3024 'FE-L' of 2 OTU at Ohakea. Now on display as unmarked 'NZ3000' in a generic RNZAF Pacific Theatre c/s.
- Air Force: Private
- Aircraft: Yakovlev Yak-3UA
- Registration: ZK-YYY / 12 (cn 1701231)
- Views: 482
- Location: Wanaka (WKA / NZWF) , New Zealand March 20, 2008
After arrival in New Zealand, Pioneer Aero at Ardmore fitted the aircraft with an Allison V-1710-111 engine. The Yak became ZK-YYY in February 2005. Here, under the early morning sun, Arthur Dovey's Yak is being prepared for Warbirds over Wanaka WOW 2008.
- Air Force: Private - The Fighter Collection
- Aircraft: Republic P-47G Thunderbolt
- Registration: G-CDVX / 42-25068 / WZ-D (cn 21953)
- Views: 482
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 7, 2011
P-47D 42-74742 of the 84th FS was assigned to Capt. Julius P. Maxwell. He named her 'War Eagle'. When re-assigned to Lt. Severino B. Calderon, the name 'Snafu' was added. The P-47 was written-off after a belly landing at Duxford on 15 December 1944.
- Air Force: Private - Comanche Fighters LLC
- Aircraft: North American P-51D Mustang
- Registration: NL351MX / 44-74391 / MX-I (cn 122-40931)
- Views: 528
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 7, 2011
The Comanche Fighters' Mustang seen here in the colours of P-51D-5-NA 44-13382 'February' of the 307th, FS/31st FG of the 15th AF as flown by Lt James L. 'Jim' Brooks. He was credited with 13½ air victories with 2 more probables.
- Views: 471
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England August 14, 2010
This F.2b Fighter was constructed by the British & Colonial Aeroplane Co. Ltd. and became part of the IWM collection in December 1922. E2581 is in the colours of No.39 (Home Defence) Squadron as based at North Weald aerodrome in 1918.
- Air Force: Netherlands - Air Force
- Aircraft: Hawker Hunter F6
- Registration: N-250 (cn 8920)
- Views: 437
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England May 5, 2011
The forward section of Fokker-built former RNethAF 325 Squadron Hunter F.6 N-250 was saved after the aircraft was converted by Hawker Siddeley Aviation to two-seat T.66D. It was delivered to the Indian Air Force on 21 September 1967 as 'S.581'.
- Air Force: Private - Mark One Partners LLC
- Aircraft: Supermarine 300 Spitfire Ia
- Registration: G-MKIA / P9374 / J (cn 6S/30565) Aircraft Info
- Views: 639
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England September 3, 2011
Introduced by the RAF in mid-1940, the new 100-octane fuel increased the Spitfire's speed by 25 mph at sea level and by 34 mph at 10,000 feet. The black hole just above the leading edge wing root is the hand cranking point for turning the engine manually.
- Air Force: Private
- Aircraft: Polikarpov I-16 Ishak
- Registration: D-EPRN / 9 (cn 2421319)
- Views: 563
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 10, 2010
The I-16 was the first low-wing monoplane with retractable undercarriage in the Sovjet Air Force. In 1936 some 475 I-16s were supplied to Spanish Republican forces. To them the I-16 was known as 'Mosca' (fly), but as 'Rata' (rat) to their opponents.
- Air Force: Private - Alpine Fighter Collection
- Aircraft: Polikarpov I-16 Ishak
- Registration: ZK-JIN / 9 (cn 2421319)
- Views: 550
- Location: Wanaka (WKA / NZWF) , New Zealand March 22, 2008
In the early 1990s six Polikarpov I-16 Ishaks and three I-153 Chaikas were recovered from crash sites in Northern Russia. The aircraft were restored by Aviarestavratsiya at Novosibirsk for the Alpine Fighter Collection. Here ZK-JIN leads I-153 ZK-JKM.
- Air Force: Private
- Aircraft: Polikarpov I-16 Ishak
- Registration: D-EPRN / 9 (cn 2421319)
- Views: 454
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 10, 2010
Former Alpine Fighter Collection Ishak ZK-JIN came to Mannheim, Germany, in 2009. The I-16 is seen here during Flying Legends 2010.
- Air Force: Private - Alpine Fighter Collection
- Aircraft: Polikarpov I-16 Ishak
- Registration: ZK-JIN / 9 (cn 2421319)
- Views: 441
- Location: Wanaka (WKA / NZWF) , New Zealand March 22, 2008
Ash-621R engined ZK-JIN made her first post-restoration flight on 9 September 1995 at Novosibirk. Two years later, on 10 October 1997, the Ishak made her first flight in New Zealand skies.
- Air Force: Private
- Aircraft: Supermarine 390 Spitfire PR.XIX
- Registration: F-AZJS / PS890 / UM-E (cn 6S/585110) Aircraft Info
- Views: 649
- Location: Duxford (EGSU) , UK - England July 10, 2010
At the time PS890 left the Southampton production line in the spring of 1945, it was powered by a Griffon 66. Since a major overhaul in the winter of 2008/09 a Rolls Royce Griffon 60 is fitted. F-AZJS is based at Dijon-Darois, France.
- Air Force: Private - Alpine Fighter Collection
- Aircraft: Polikarpov I-153 Chaika
- Registration: ZK-JJB / 10 (cn 6326)
- Views: 628
- Location: Wanaka (WKA / NZWF) , New Zealand March 23, 2008
This 'Red 10' was one of three Chaikas recovered in Russia and restored in Novosibirsk for the Alpine Fighter Collection. The aircraft came to Wanaka in March 1998, but was damaged during her first flight there on the 23rd of that month.
- Air Force: Private
- Aircraft: Yakovlev Yak-3UA
- Registration: ZK-YYY / 12 (cn 1701231)
- Views: 357
- Location: Wanaka (WKA / NZWF) , New Zealand March 22, 2008
The Yak's markings are based on those applied to the Yak-3 of Lt. Saveli Vasilevich Nosov of the 150 GIAP, 13 GIAD in 1945. The cyrillic text beneath the cockpit reads: 'Commander Arthur Dovey'. The Yak was extensively damaged during WOW 2018.
- Air Force: Netherlands - Air Force
- Aircraft: Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II
- Registration: F-015 (cn AN-15) Aircraft Info
- Views: 602
- Location: Leeuwarden (LWR / EHLW) , Netherlands April 14, 2021
Delivered to Leeuwarden on 24 December 2020 as 'NAF-322', F-015 was first noted operating with 322 Squadron two months later, on 24 February 2021.
- Air Force: UK - Navy
- Aircraft: Supermarine Walrus I
- Registration: L2301 (cn 6S/21840)
- Views: 710
- Location: Yeovilton (YEO / EGDY) , UK - England May 1, 2019
Originally destined for the FAA, this Walrus was delivered to the Irish Air Corps in March 1939. The aircraft retained the Supermarine B-class registration N18 and served with No.1 Squadron, IAC, at Rineanna (Shannon) patrolling the Irish west coast.
- Air Force: UK - Navy
- Aircraft: Supermarine Attacker F.1
- Registration: WA473 / J/102
- Views: 935
- Location: Yeovilton (YEO / EGDY) , UK - England May 1, 2019
WA473 without the bulbous 250 Imp Gallon ventral tank as used on most operational missions to increase the endurance of the thirsty Rolls Royce Nene 3 jet engine. Four 20mm cannon mounted in the wings. In total 54 Attacker F.1s were produced.
- Air Force: UK - Navy
- Aircraft: Supermarine Attacker F.1
- Registration: WA473 / J/102
- Views: 920
- Location: Yeovilton (YEO / EGDY) , UK - England May 1, 2019
In August 1951, the first FAA Attacker unit, No.800 Squadron, was formed at RNAS Ford. The squadron went to sea on HMS Eagle in March 1952. Only two years later, the squadron disbanded, later reforming at RNAS Brawdy with Sea Hawks.
- Views: 827
- Location: Bodo (BOO / ENBO) , Norway August 9, 2019
This 504K (powered by a Sunbeam Dyak) served with the Sønnenfjeldske Flyavdeling at Kjeller from July 1921. The serial 103 had been re-allocated to this Kjeller Flyfabrikk assembled 504K after Avro 504A 103 (ex RFC B4306) had crashed on 1 April 1919.
- Air Force: Germany - Air Force
- Aircraft: Lockheed F-104G Starfighter
- Registration: 25+74 (cn 683D-9035)
- Views: 660
- Location: Off-Airport - Wilhelmshaven , Germany July 26, 2020
Some time ago the orange dayglo bands were added to the wingtip fuel tanks of former JBG-31 and JBG-33 25+74. Preserved at the German Naval Museum at Wilhelmshaven as '22+22' of MFG-1.