The 16-year restoration of B-29 Doc transformed a desert hulk into one of only two flying Superfortresses in the world.
TaildraggerThe de Havilland Mosquito was a WWII bomber built from wood that outran every fighter in the sky and became the war's most versatile aircraft.
TaildraggerThe incredible true story of Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning recovered from 268 feet of Greenland ice and restored to flying condition.
TaildraggerDozens of WWII warbirds rest on Lake Michigan's bottom, sunk during carrier training near Chicago and now being recovered and restored to fly.
TaildraggerHow volunteers rescued the B-29 Fifi from a Navy bombing range and restored her to flying condition against impossible odds.
TaildraggerHurricane R4118, a Battle of Britain combat veteran with 49 sorties, was recovered from India and restored to airworthy condition.
TaildraggerThe Bristol Blenheim flew Britain's first offensive mission of WWII, then vanished — until one man spent 31 years bringing her back.
TaildraggerHow 300,000 hours of volunteer labor brought B-29 Doc from a desert hulk to the second flying Superfortress in the world.
TaildraggerA Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk sat untouched in the Egyptian Sahara for 70 years after its pilot vanished, sparking a fierce restoration debate.
TaildraggerWhiskey Seven, a D-Day C-47 that dropped paratroopers over Normandy in 1944, was restored and flew the same mission 70 years later.
TaildraggerDozens of WWII Navy trainers rest on Lake Michigan's bottom, and the remarkable recoveries are producing airworthy warbirds decades later.
TaildraggerThe Maverick Act would transfer three F-14D Tomcats to Huntsville, Alabama, with at least one potentially restored to flying condition.
TowerHow a B-29 Superfortress abandoned on a Navy weapons range was restored to flight over nearly two decades by volunteers in Wichita.
TaildraggerHow a P-38 Lightning buried under 268 feet of Greenland ice was recovered and restored to flying condition after 60 years.
TaildraggerHow Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmoviks survived sixty years underwater and the painstaking effort to restore history's most-produced combat aircraft.
TaildraggerNew Zealand's Avspecs and the UK's People's Mosquito project are rebuilding the legendary WWII wooden fighter-bomber from scratch.
TaildraggerThe story of Just Jane, the Avro Lancaster that two Lincolnshire brothers spent decades restoring to honor their brother lost over Nuremberg in 1944.
TaildraggerThe Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California, maintains the world's only original flyable Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero fighter.
TaildraggerHow a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 crashed in a Russian forest in 1943 was recovered six decades later and restored to flying condition.
TaildraggerThe sixteen-year restoration of B-29 'Doc' brought a desert hulk back to flight, making it one of only two flying Superfortresses worldwide.
Taildragger