Worldwide Numbers of Warbirds Flying by Type

[Mick G]

Yeah, in a couple follow-up posts by Jacob McKenney, he states that because of the floats, the aircraft has a load-carrying capacity of 3,500 lbs, down from what the DC-3/C-47 can traditionally carry (up to 6,000 lbs), and that the cruise speed is 15-20 mph slower due to the floats.

John. I don't see N130Q on your list? Is she airworthy, or still being worked on?

[JohnTerrell]

Not currently airworthy, but it's being worked on.

[JohnTerrell]

As has been reported quite widely now, the Duxford-based Hawker Sea Fury WG655 (G-INVN), owned by Shaun Patrick and operated by the Norwegian Spitfire Foundation, was involved in an off-airport forced landing today in a wooded area near Harston, England, causing significant damage to the airframe. Fortunately it is reported that both occupants only suffered minor injuries. A very poorly-written article: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/c ... gkwG_3JbNQ

[JohnTerrell]

At Duxford today, John Romain performed the first post-repair/restoration flight of Christophe Jacquard's Spitfire PR.XIX PS890 (F-AZJS), which had been under restoration/repair at the Aircraft Restoration Company (ARCo) since the takeoff accident in June 2017 which caused substantial damage to the airframe.

[ErrolC]

F-86 Sabres flying in the world:
...
VH-IPN, which is currently voluntarily not flown

https://www.facebook.com/temoraaviation ... 105326049/

Temora Aviation Museum
We are still dealing with the unresolved ejection seat issue, so we won't see it fly in the near future, but rest assured we are still maintaining this beautiful aircraft to preservation level.

Part of the preservation cycle involves an engine run, and although we haven't started the engine for over a year, it started better than expected, with a little encouragement from our Chief Engineer Andrew Bishop.

Sound on at 20 seconds to hear the start up and shut down

[JohnTerrell]

Thank you Errol for that update!

Just heard that the ex-Bill Greenwood Spitfire T.9 TE308 had a test flight today at Biggin Hill. This is the first time the aircraft has flown since the damage that occurred to it in 2008. Hopefully the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar will provide some info and pictures of the aircraft later.

[Thomas_Mac]

Further CAF A-26 update, just waiting for a pilot. Pics are from the link below.

https://www.chevelles.com/forums/11-ben ... gress.html

[jdeters79]

John,

Do you have a list of flying BT-13/15 aircraft? I believe Paul Krumrei had a list on his website, but it would be interesting to see the latest count.

Thanks,
Jordan

[JohnTerrell]

Hi Jordan, I started working on that last year but never finished. I definitely would love to include them - the biggest motivating factor being there are likely more flying than many might think. I'll see about putting more time into it again.

Also, thank you Thomas for the latest on the CAF A-26!

[JohnTerrell]

Thanks to the suggestion, I have now added the four active/flying Gloster Meteors.

Australia: 1 (VZ467)
United Kingdom: 2 (WL419, WA638)
United States: 1 (WA591)

Meteor T7 WA591 was just delivered to the Planes of Fame Air Museum at Chino on Monday, having been donated to the museum. It will remain flying.

[Thomas_Mac]

Thanks to the suggestion, I have now added the four active/flying Gloster Meteors.

Australia: 1 (VZ467)
United Kingdom: 2 (WL419, WA638)
United States: 1 (WA591)

Meteor T7 WA591 was just delivered to the Planes of Fame Air Museum at Chino on Monday, having been donated to the museum. It will remain flying.

[Warbirdnerd]

Subtract 1 Bearcat and 1 Texan. There was an incident at Wheeler Army Airfield today.

[The Ripper]

Subtract 1 Bearcat and 1 Texan. There was an incident at Wheeler Army Airfield today.

What happened?

[Warbirdnerd]

Subtract 1 Bearcat and 1 Texan. There was an incident at Wheeler Army Airfield today.

What happened?

Bearcat reported a brake failure after taxiing into a large fire extinguisher one propblade departed and hit a T-6's engine. Both were left decidedly non-airworthy.

https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100: ... 20,GRUMMAN

[ErrolC]

There are at least 183 Douglas DC-3's (of all variants and modifications) flying:

Flightradar24 has tracked 184 - it would be great if you were able to cross-check. They only show one in NZ - I understand why they missed ZK-JGB, but both the other two are quite active (i.e. weekly scheduled return flights for ZK-AMY, 2/3 passenger flights a month for ZK-DAK) outside winter.

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/the- ... -the-dc-3/

... Flightradar24 doesn’t pick up every DC-3 flight as many still flying are not equipped with ADS-B and MLAT tracking is difficult in remote areas. For instance the DC-3 remains a workhorse for small cargo and passenger airlines in remote sections of Colombia – and those don’t often show up. However our data shows 184 DC-3 airplanes as recently active, a number that represents most of those still flying. A number of these perform aerial displays or flights for enthusiasts, but there are plenty that run missions like cargo runs in Canada’s remote north.