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Operators & Restorers of
Historic Naval and other Aircraft
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See also the Fleet Air Arm and Aviation museums web pages.
A number of museums operate airworthy historic aircraft which an be seen in
their Flying Days, vintage aircraft fly-ins or other calendar of activities.
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Argentina
Australia
- Air Combat Australia - offers Air
Combat Manoeuvering Training as a syllabus in
MIG-16
- Antique Aeroplane
Association of Australia - promoting the preservation, rebuilding
and above all flying of old aeroplanes
- Antique Airways -
classic aircraft charter - Fly Tiger Moth, Staggerwing,
Beech 18 - former EATS WW2 aircraft
- Australian Jet Adventures Fly a
BAC-167 Strikemaster (Click for
promotional video)
- Australia'
Museum of Flight - joy rides at the Australian Fleet Air Arm Museum
- Australian War
Memorial - Unique Me262A-2a Jet Fighter restoration - former Naval
aviation /EATS WW2 aircraft
- Bathurst
vintage joyflights - Tiger Moth
flights
- former EATS WW2 aircraft
- Bleriot XI -students at Burnie TAFE building 2 flying replicas of a 1909 Bleriot XI.
- Boomerang Fighter
Restorations - Only one Australian designed and built WWII Boomerang
fighter flying worldwide.
- Classic Wings Downunder
- Captain Boggles Tiger
Moth - scenic flights in Tiger Moth - - former EATS WW2
aircraft
- Geelong Flight Centre - joy flights in Tiger
Moth
- former EATS WW2 aircraft
- G for George" Avro
Lancaster
- Hempels
Aviation - Display MIG 15 Fighter, Antonov
AN2, YAK 52 and pleasure flights in Tiger Moth, Yak 52, Agcat, Auster
J5.
- former EATS WW2 aircraft
- Historical
Aircraft Restoration Society - Lockheed Super Constellation L1049
- Hunterflight
- restoration of Hawker Hunter VH - RHO at Archerfield Airport former
Fleet Air Arm Air Station.
- Incredible
Adventures - Sydney - Fly in a Strikemaster
- Lang Kidby's re-enactment of Hinklers
Flight to Australia 1928 - recently restored 1927Avro Avian
biplane
- Panama Jack's Vintage Aircraft Company
- P 51D Mustang, former RAAN Fleet Air Arm Hawker Fury/Sea Fury, Waco
UPF-7, Stearman, T6-G
- RAN
Historic Flight - Hawker Sea Fury of RAAN Fleet
Air Arm flying at the Australian Fleet Air Arm HQ.
- Red Baron Scenic
Flights - fly in a Tiger Moth - ex WW2 EATS
- Restoration of RAAF
B-24M Consolidated Liberator A72-176 - Consolidated Liberator
- Open Cockpit Tiger
Moth Joy Rides, Pty. Ltd. DH-82 Tiger Moth joy rides
- Queensland Air Museum
- flying a DC-3
- Tiger
Moth Scenic Flights of Western Australia, Jandakot
Airport, Perth, W.A.DH-82 Tiger Moth rides - - ex WW2 EATS
- Tiger Moth World Adventure Park
- theme park based around the
Tiger Moth in a livng museum - Fly in a Tiger Moth or Tiger Moth Jumbo Jackaroo - ex WW2 EATS
B
Belgium
- Antwerp Stampe Center - airworthy Stampe
SV-4 (eight aircraft), Nieuport, Fokker,
Spitfire and Harvard with occasional flights and Fly-in
- Classic Fighters
- A
Belgian aircraft preservation group which seeks to keep the aviation
heritage alive by restoring and operating several historic aircraft inc.
Hawker Hunters as used by the Royal Navy
FRADU.
- Sabena Old Timers -
Restore and fly vintage aircraft incl. Lockheed L18/C60
"LODESTAR"
- The Vormezeele Collection- 13 aircraft including Morane-Saulnier Criquet, Stampe, Harvards, and Fieseler Fi.156 Storch
Brazil
C
Canada
- Adventure Bound Seaplanes -
gain valuable bush flying experience in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ontario and Manitoba
- Air Capitol Warbirds
LLC- inventory of 50: F-18, F-16, EF-111, F-8, A-4C, TA-4J, A-7,
T-38, T-2, AH-1T. Many used by BCATP in WW2.
- Air Combat Experience --
Fly a former BCATP Harvard Mk. IV in British Columbia
- The Arrow Alliance - Rebuild the Avro
Arrow, CF-105
- Arrow Recovery Canada - located misssing test models in 1999
- BLAYD Zero: A6M2 Model 21 Zero
Fighter Restoration.
- British Columbia Aviation Museum - Noorduyn Norseman Aircraft millenium
restoration
- The British Commonwealth
Air Training Plan Museum (Brandon) - PT-26 Cornell, Harvard, Tiger
Moth, Stinson 105 as used by RAF and Fleet Air Arm in WW2.
- Canadian Harvard Aircraft
Association - Harvards
as used in the BCATP.
- Canadian
Historical Aircraft Association - Lancaster Bomber Restoration at
Jackson Park, Building of a Mosquito Bomber, flying Stinson trainer.
- Canadian
Museum of Flight - restoring a 1937 WACO Cabin, many flying aircraft
- Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum -
includes rides program in Stearman and Harvard
trainer - ex BCATP WW2 aircraft
- Clark Industries
- constructs quarter scale flying Spitfire MK
- Durham Flight
Centre, Inc. Oshawa, Ontario. Fly a Harvard IV,
de Havilland Tiger Moth, or Waco YMF-5, ex BCATP WW2 aircraft.
- Forest Protection Limited -
Firebomber Avengers ex USN Navy aircraft
- Historic Aircraft Company - aircraft
for sale include Brewster B-239 (F2A-1) Buffalo, Tupolev TU-2, Hurricane, Spitfire etc.
- Hotwings
Hangar Entrance - restoring fiormer Fleet
Air Arm Fairey Firefly Mk1, PP462 for the Shearwater Aviation Museum
- Moore Aviation Restoration
Co. Ltd. - Restores to flying condition - including a Harvard Mk.4, DeHavilland Chipmunk, DeHavilland
Tiger Moth, Fleet 80 Canuck, Stinson 108-1, T-28A Trojan and former
Fleet Air Arm and RCN Hawker Sea Fury.
- Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial
Museum - including replica Burgess-Dunne Floatplane
- Tactical Aviation Support
Services Over 40 aircraft platforms are offered for military
contracting services.
D
Denmark
F
Finland
France
- Ailes Anciennes La Baule/Pays De
Loire - Meteor, Potez, Thunderjet,
Schleicher, Vaultour II
- Ailes Anciennes Toulouse
- 20-30 aircraft
- Amicale Jean Baptiste Salis
- Conservatoire de l'Air et de l'Espace d'Aquitaine - over 29 aircraft
- France Warbirds : Les Warbirds en
état de vol -
Mustang, Spitfire, former USN and French Fleet Air Arm Corsair &
Avenger, also Skyraider, Bearcat, Yak 9,
Catalina, B-17, Storch, Spitfire, Harvard, etc
- Groupement
pour la Préservation du
Patrimoine Aéronautique
- flying includes POTEZ JD 60, Morane Saulnier "Criquet".
- Memorial Flight
Association - restoring/flying Spad XIII, Fokker
DR-I, Morane
AI type XXIX, Blériot XI² and Dassault MD 311 Flamant . Restoring
RAF SE5a and Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter
1B2.
- The "Pink Lady" B-17G - The French
Flying B-17 G - Last French Flying B-17G, 351st Bomb Group.
G
Germany
Greece
I
India
Italy
J
M
Malta
N
The Netherlands
New
Zealand
- Alpine Fighter Collection
- Biplane Adventures, Lake Wanaka - vintage flights Mustang & Tiger
Moth
- Croydon Aviation Heritage Trust, Mandeville
Airfield
- Croydon Air Services Ltd-
Flight training in vintage and classic aircraft and scenic flights in de
Havilland Tiger Moths, Fox Moth, Dominie, or
Dragonfly.
- Gisborne
Aviation Preservation Society - Lockheed L18-56 Lodestar, Tiger
Moth, Avenger, DC-3,
- Great New Zealand Biplane Adventure Co.,
Taupo. For vintage flights - Grumman G164
"AgCat"
- New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum Home
Page, Wanaka - aircraft includes: SE5A
Replica, de Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth, de Havilland DH83 Fox Moth,
Chipmunk, Hurricane Mk IIA, Spitfire LF Mk XVI, Mustang, Harvard, Polikarpov I-16 Ishak
(Rata) and Polikarpov I-153 Chaika
- The New Zealand Warbirds Association
- Salt Air Ltd - New
Zealand Air Service Operator - rides in Widgeon seaplane
- Skyshow Centre - Wanaka - Fly Mustangs, T-6s.
- Warbird
Dakota Society - DC-3 Dakota flights
Norway
- Ju-88 CF+VP -
restoration and preservation of Ju88 with Werk.
nr 88/6146
- Scandinavian Historic Flight
- Mustang, A-26 B Invader, SAAB J-35 Draken,
Harvard, Vampire and Hunter
- Warbirds Of Norway - flying Yak, Harvard,
Vampire, Dakota, Brousaard, Jungmann, Birddog
R
Russia
- AviaScan
Group - search and recovery of WW2 aircraft in NW Russia - results
of last expedition included finding Il-2 (single seat), Il-2 (two
seat), LaGG-3, MiG-3, Po-2, La-5
- Fly Jets -- Russian company
arranges flights in any number of aircraft near Moscow.
- Incredible
Adventures - fly close to space, cosmonaut training, zero gravity,
day as a Cosmonaut. Flights in IL 76, MiG25, MiG29.
- Monino
Aviation Museum
- Moscow Aircraft Group - fly all
kinds of Russian jets.
S
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
U
Ukraine
United
Kingdom
- Aeromech International Resoures
Ltd - Hunter Mk F58s for lease or hire
- Aero Vintage - restored the
only flying Hawker Nimrod I S.1581 (G-BWWK), an ex HMs
Glorious aircraft (also see
Historic Aircraft Collection)
- Air Atlantique,
Coventry - C47 fleet
- The Aircraft Restoration
Company
- Airframe Assemby Ltd - manufacturer of sheet metal parts
for historic warbirds. Projects inc Spitfire,
Messerschmitt, Hurricane
- Anglo-American Lightning
Association
- The Assault
Glider Project - full-size replicas of the Allied Assault Gliders of
World War II.
- Auster Nine Project
- AviaSpecial -
Pleasure flights and trial lessons in vintage and aerobatic aircraft - Anatov AN-2, Tiger Moth - Classic Aviation Days for
corporate events (also see Pleasure
fly web page)
- B-17 Preservation Ltd -
Sally B - The airworthy B-17 Flying Fortress
- Back to Base excursions in Essex
- The balloon preservation
group balloon museum
- The Battle of Britain
Memorial Flight
- Beech Restorations
- Bianchi Aviation
Film Services, Wycombe Air Park - the home of motion picture
aviation - aircraft available date from 1904 through World War I
fighters, classic bi-planes, touring aircraft, military aeroplanes of
the between war periods onto World war II Spitfires etc.
- Bournemouth Aviation Charitable
Foundation Ltd.- Fast Jets at Bournemouth. They
operate Hunters, Vampires and Meteors as well as Helicopters. Alo shave a Mig 21.
- The Britannia Aircraft Preservation Trust - preserved
Britannia civil aircraft
- Britten-Norman
Aircraft Preservation Society
- Buccanneers Supporter Group - restore Royal Navy
Buccaneer XX894 which took part in "Desert Storm" during
the Gulf War
- Catalina Online - home of the Catalina
Society and Plane Sailing- Catalina shares for sale
- Catalina Restoration
project - Restoration of Catalina VP-BPS
- Classic Aero Services UK based and
specializing in the supply, restoration, and manufacture of components
for vintage, classic, and warbird aeroplanes
- Classic Jet Aircraft Company - 14 Hawker Hunter jets
former naval aviation Fleet Air Arm aircraft from RNAS Yeovilton.
- Classic Wings
(Duxford) - Vintage Aircraft Flights in a Tiger Moth or Dragon Rapide
- The Comet
Campaign
- The Dakota
Trust - the only Dakota living Museum - airworthy Dakota
- De Havilland Aviation
flying lessons - flights in many former Fleet Air Arm aircraft -
perhaps the largest collection of private and historic Royal Navy
aircraft today. Flights in Hunters, Meteors, Provost, three Vampires,
Sea Devon, and the only airworthy Fleet Air Arm Sea Vixen in the world.
- de Havilland Moth Club
- Delta Aviation - Fly
A Classic Plane - Tiger Moth, Stearman and
Sioux flights available
- DeltaJets
- fly in Hawker Hunters as used by the Fleet Air Arm FRADU
- The Diamond Nine Web
Page - Tiger Moth formation flying
- The Fighter Collection - Europe's
Largest Collection of Airworthy Warbirds
- Fleet Air Arm Squadron -
including former Fleet Air Arm aircraft
- Fleet Air Arm -
Swordfish Heritage Trust (Royal Navy Historic Flight)
- Focke-Wulf
Restoration Society of West Sussex
- Grimsby Lightning
Preservation Group
- The Halifax Restoration Project - The
Story of Halifax NA337
- Hangar 4 Ltd, North Weald
Airfield - film location - supplying flying or static examples of
most types of aircraft. Mustang, Yak 52,. Yak 50, Beech D17, Jet Provost
- Hawker Restorations Ltd
- Heritage Aviation
- The home of Miss Demeanour G-PSST (Hawker
F.4 XF947) - former Fleet Air Arm aircraft at RNAS Arbroath.
- Historic
Aircraft Collection - includes Spitfire, Hurricane, Yak and former
Fleet Air Arm Hawker Nimrod I S.1581 of HMS Glorious.
- Imperial War Museum, Duxford:
Includes
vintage rides
- THE INTREPID
AVIATION COMPANY LIMITED, North Weald Aerodrome - flying aircraft include Stearman, Staggerwing, Yak 52, Mustang and Gnat.
- ItsRussian's
AN-2 Flying Club, Blackbushe-- Offering
partner memberships in an AN-2 biplane to UK-based pilots only.
- The Jet Centre - maintenaince of ex military fighters and trainers
- Jet Provost Club-- Rides and
instruction in the Hunting Jet Provost
- John Griffin --
PT-17 Stearman flights and lessons
- Ken Fern - Aeroplane
restorations and propeller making
- Kennet Aircraft on the Web - Jet Provost, Piston
Provost, GNAT, G-TIMM
- Lance Corke
Aero warbird parts for Spitfire,
Hurricane, Lancaster and other warbirds.
- Lightning Flying Club
- Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, East
Kirkby - custodian of "Just Jane' Lancaster - Take
a trip and receive cerificate
- Lincolnshire
Lightning Preservation Society
- Medway
Aircraft Preservation Society
- The National Air
Pageant - campaign to have the world's last airworthy de Havilland
Comet flying
- The Old Flying Machine
Company - the largest warbird operators in
the UK - flying Spitfire , Former Naval aviation Corsair, and
Hunter, Mustang and Kitty Hawk, Yak 3, and L39.
- Pleasure fly web page - Classic
and vintage flights to create an entertaining day- AN-2, Tiger Moth, Zlin etc.
- Project Vampire.
Homepage of the 'Dusk Till Dawn' Vampire Restoration (G-DUSK) -
vampires were the first jets to land on an aircraft carrier.
- The Real
Aeroplane Company - over 40 flying machines in residency inc . Spitfire and Hurricane to the Aeronca 100, the worlds only airworthy example
- REDN@L
RAIDERS A group of Pilots dedicated to operating and restoring