MUSEUM AND AIRCRAFT RESTORATION FACILITY

United States Air Force Pages .mil
United States Navy Pages .mil
United States Army Pages .mil
Confederate Air Force
Vietnam Conflict
Aircraft Museums Civil
Airshow
Aviation News Pages/Books/Stories/CD Rom
Aircraft Parts/Sales/Service
Federal Surplus
Federal Government Agencies
Foreign Sites

United States Air Force Pages .mil

 USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Serial Numbers--1922 to Present
Great for tracking tail numbers.

 Manufacturer's Codes by Skytamer Images
Manufacturer Codes very useful to determine who built a particular aircraft.

 Davis Mothnan List of Stored Aircraft AMARC
Up to date list of all aircraft stored at this facility, by the Freedom of Information Act.

 Davis Mothnan AFB Home Page
Everything about the base.

 USAF Museum Dayton Ohio
The very best airplane museum in the world.

 USAF Museum Dayton Ohio, The "Lady Be Good"
At 2:50 p.m. on Apr. 4, 1943, 25 B-24Ds of the 376th Bomb Group took off from their AAF base at Soluch, Libya.

  USAF Museum Dayton Ohio, The "Lady Be Good"
All planes but one returned safely to Allied territory that night--the one which was missing was the Lady Be Good.

  Quartermaster Foundation WeB, The "Lady Be Good"
Lady Be Good Recovery in 1959 of B-24 Bomber crew lost in Libyan Desert in 1943.The next year the bodies of eight of the nine crew members were recovered by Quartermaster Graves Registration personnel.

 Dryden Flight Research Center
Past and current projects with gallery.

 USAF Aerial Events Support Site.
Ever wondered how you get the military to do airshows, fly-overs for parades, funerals and any other special event you might have coming up. GO HERE.

 Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover Air Force Base
One of the AF many small museums.

 Air Force Historical Research Agency
Maxwell Air Force Base, got questions about USAF and they are very good about answering all inquiries.

 Air Force News
Every day news on aircraft, personal matters, pay, and anything else you may think off. With lots of links to other Air Force information.

 Coastal Computers, Inc.
Now this one was a hard one to index not being a .mil page, but since its about mostly mil aircraft figured this is the best place for it. This is a huge listing with links of mostly mil aircraft, if your trying to find what and where is a C-131 or C-133 or C-140 or any other off the wall mil airplane this is the place to go.

 THE PLANES OF AIR WARRIOR
Another one hard to index but again since its all mil aircraft. A good site about WW2 aircraft with great write ups on the specific characteristic's of each aircraft both strong and weak points.

United States Navy Pages .mil

 Blue Angels Home Page
All kinds of information on the team and history.

United States Army Pages .mil

 US Army Aviation Museum
Ft. Rucker Ala.

 The Army Transportation Museum,
Ft Eustis, VA. All kinds of trucks, boats, planes, train.

Confederate Air Force

  CAF Keystone Wing
Located at the Allegheny County Airport Pittsburgh Pa. Great bunch of guys and dolls who we have worked with and flown with in the past.

 Confederate Air Force
These guys were saving WW 2 airplanes when others were still scraping them. Still going strong today.

 Confederate Air Force Great Lakes Wing
Flying a C-47 and a German designed JU-52.

Vietnam Conflict

 Huey's Home Page
Not Really About Vietnam but real good chopper page, lots of links

 Vietnam Helicopters Pilots Assoc. (VHPA)
Lots of information on reunion's, KIA lists, war stories, sounds of the war in the air and more.

 Vietnam Helicopter Flight Crew Network
Search engine on Vietnam, Family Contacts Committee assist family members of helicopter crewmen and pilots who were casualties of the Vietnam War by finding information and/or putting them in contact with friends of their departed loved-one, unit info, old war pics, Been there done that war stories and more.

 1st Cav Div Assoc Home Page
Formed in 1944 this page provides information 44 to present.

 My favorite sites and links
Another good Army chopper site with mostly links.

 Angry Skipper
Another 1st Cav Div page, this to the 2nd of the 8th but a free spirited sort of page with lots of links and pics.

 Vietscape
Ok now this one is not about airplanes in any way, its about the people of Vietnam in the US and over there. So you can get an idea what they are like at peace.

 Vietnam on Film and Television:
Documentaries in the Library of Congress, a list of programs done by various news groups covering the war years.

 Authors On Line
A very long reading, but worth it, about the history of the war. How it got started but mostly its about a document released by the CIA in 1978 that covers intel reports on American MIA, NVA prison camps and how the north and our own government to this day still with holds information on our MIA's.

 POWs and Politics: How Much does Hanoi Really Know
A Paper Presented on 19 April 1996 at the Center for the Study of the Vietnam Conflict Symposium "After the Cold War: Reassessing Vietnam," at Texas Tech University Written by: Garnett "Bill" Bell and George J. Veith. This covers allot of the questions as to MIA and KIA.

 Vietnam War Stories
By those who lived them, everything you could think of and there's a ton of them.

 The Vietnam Archive
Formerly the The Archive of the Vietnam Conflict Texas Tech University.

 Reget to Inform
Stories by mothers of KIA soldiers both American and Vietnamese.

 US Army Attack Helicopters
* A Crew Chiefs View Of Vietnam Era Attack Helicopter Gunships *
Welcome to the home page of Attack Helicopter Crew Chief / Photographer Butch Lottman

Aircraft Museums Civil

 Directory of Aircraft Type Clubs
A huge list of just about every aviation group out there with name's, address's, web pages (if they have one) phone numbers all that.

 Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation Main Page
Tim Chopp's boys who saved and are flying a vet of the Berlin Airlift, a C-54. Which they flew to Berlin a year ago.

 Northeast Aircraft Restoration Facility
Restoring mostly Navy aircraft.

 Aviation Masterpiece & The Story
Another War Story Site

 Japanese Aircraft and Ship Modeling
Yea its a model page but a great resource for Japanese aircraft of the Second World War.

 Thunderbolt & Navion
P-47 Alumni Association chat room and forum.

 Squadron 704 Civil Air Patrol
Located on the Beaver County Airport, Beaver Falls Pa.

 Mid Atlantic Air Museum
A very good museum located in Reading Pa.

 OV-1 Mohawk Association
Not many people know about this airplane or the people who flew them.

 Disappearance of a B-25 Bomber
Investigation into the 1956 Disappearance of a B-25 Bomber in the Monongahela River Pittsburgh Pa. Search still ongoing at this time, Scans of underwater search.

 Collings Foundation River Hill Farm, Stow, MA
This is the western part of the Collings group but a good place to keep up with the B-17 909 and the All American B-24 on the airshow tour. Also their other aircraft are listed.

 Combat Air Museum
Located in Topeka, KS, lots of aircraft

 Larrys Bomber Command
Covering the English efforts during WW 2 with stories, art work, pics all of English aircraft.

 Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
They operate the last flying Lancaster Bomber in the world, also many many other WW 2 aircraft.

 Air Museum Planes of Fame
Located at Chino Airport CA they operate many great WW 2 aircraft.

 The National Warplane Museum
Located at the Elmira/Corning Regional Airport in Chemung County, NY - Home to 30+ historic military aircraft and the annual Wings of Eagles® Airshow. Visit our web site for more info

 Fort Smith Air Museum
A new one here, The Fort Smith Air Museum is dedicated to preserving the history of the development of aviation in the Western Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma.

 Grumman Goose.Com
"Helping Preserve the History of the Grumman Goose"

Airshow

 Adrenalin Group
Airshow performers listing and a good source for unusual aircraft service's.

 FAA
Rules, how to, forms for air events

 ICAS
International Council of Airshows, their real big in the business, if your thinking about doing an air event I would check in with them.

Aviation News Pages

 AVweb
A great page that covers aviation world wide, commercial, private, military and experimental. These guys have gone after the FAA a number of times to protect the rights of pilots and operators.

 Landings
Another very good page with search able data bases on aircraft registration world wide, pilots mechanic license's, airport data, weather and many more. Plus many articles and comments from the public.

 Pacific Flyer
Good site that promotes their publication.

 Aero Trader
Planes, Cars, Trucks, Cycles, Boats, Pickups, SUV's and Jobs.

 Trade-A-Plane
World's Largest Aviation Resource -- Updated Daily!
 
 

Wings Over Kansas
The state's web site resource for aeronautics and astronautics History, Aviation Profiles, News.

Warbird War Stories
Pilot war stories, good site.

 The Golden Age of Aviation and Classic Aircraft!
Covers aircraft from the 30s. Good page for the race guys.

 SoloTrek Exo-Skeletor Flying Vehicle
Boy you got to take a look at this one, an all new single VTOL.

 Ghost Wings Magazine
Now this one is unusual to say the least, a couple of high school students who know about WW2 and the aircraft, pilots and the missions they flew. Good page and you can get a subscription.

 Aviation Top 100
Great link page with a ranking and the number of hits per page.

 WarBirds Worldwide
Warbird Mag site out of England, the Brits do the best coverage on the warbird community I have see to date.

 Virtual Aircraft Museum
Mostly Russian military but with worldwide links to other mil aircraft.

 Aviation History Site
This web site is about old airplanes and flying them. It was started as an archive of the many Dispatch magazine articles that I had written over the last 7+ years. included some aircraft images, and some original operating manuals.

 Aviation Search Engine by Totavia
If its aviation you'll find it here

 Aviation Heritage
Aviation Heritage publishes Aviation Books, Airplane Photo CDs, 3-view Scale Drawings and a new Online Airplane Magazine.

Aircraft Parts/Sales/Service

 Aircraft Cylinder and Turbine
Rebuilds PW R2800 engines, good source for parts.

 Aircraft Sales of Central Ohio
Want to buy a great airplane, talk to Mike about the CJ-6A Nan Chang.

 Aircraft Spruce
Need parts, metal, rivets Etc

 BARNSTORMERS AVIATION BUSINESS
Hundreds of classified ad bulletin boards available for advertising by the aviation community worldwide. This is a really big site where you can find anything for any airplane.

 Cessna Parts
CessnaParts.Com is a service of Hill Aircraft and Leasing Corp. As an Authorized Cessna Parts Dealer, we stock a full inventory of original factory Cessna parts for fast shipment.

 Univair
Univair has been a supplier of quality parts and supplies for General Aviation since 1946. Our
goal is to keep the older models and "Classic" aircraft in the air.

 Aviation Index
Calin's Aviation Index is the only free, internet-based aviation directory for the business professional.  Our index is designed to provide universal access to industry information.

 Peck Aero Products
We are a supplier of raw materials and previously certified parts for aircraft floats. We also buy &
sell used/salvaged aircraft & floats parts and accessories.

 Ripeau Aircraft Salvage, Inc.
Your source for used aircraft parts and accessories. All parts are from FAA registered aircraft.

 Aircraft Salvage Listings
Used parts and airplanes for sale.

 Discount Aircraft Salvage
We Specialize In: Light plane sales, Light plane parts, Aircraft recovery, Insurance work
Aircraft refurbishing, We also buy used aircraft.

 Airjunk.com
Pilots Worldwide Flea Market INTERNET Listing Service LIST for Free!

 Tail Dragons
Dedicated to showing off your favorite tail-dragger, and rebuild on any antique classic aircraft.

Arkansas Airframe of Clinton
The old method of getting information about salvage and parts information to the aviation consumer involved spending potentially hundreds or thousands of dollars on color photos, long distance phone conversations, not to mention the waiting for the mail to run.

 Upper Valley Aviation. com
Aircraft Sales, Salvage & Parts

  Flying Supply Aircraft Parts
All of our aviation parts and materials meet mil. and astm. specifications
All seals and materials listed meet millspec and astm specs, all seals and materials are not of critical types and can be identified as standard parts. Certifications are available on request.

Federal Surplus

 Government Search Form
THESE ITEMS ARE NOT FOR PUBLIC AUCTION OR SALE, are you a government agency if you are and your in need of something and have the NSN number you can search for it here.

 GSA Federal Supply Service
Information on who and how to use this service.

 Federal Disposal System
More information on who and how can use this service

 DRMS Experimental Search Form
This search engine can be used by anyone to bid on any surplus material, but you must understand the NSN numbers and what the FSC and NIIN codes mean to the NSN number.

 Pennsylvania Department of General Services
Home page for the Federal Surplus Property Program. Again this service is restricted to government agencies.

 FEDERAL SURPLUS PROPERTY
This is a Utah site but it explains how and who can use the service.

Federal Government Agencies

 National Archives and Records Administration
This is a vast site and really takes some time to figure out how to use it. But there are many records of reports, letters, pictures, drawings and much more in an on line service called NAIL. For example, hand written reports of officers on board the USS Hornet during the search for Amelia Earhart in the late 30s.

 NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL)
As part of the Electronic Access Project, NARA has digitized copies of the National Archives most popular and significant manuscripts, photographs, maps, drawings and other documents. The 124,000 digital copies are available for researchers to view online through NAIL. Users are able to search the descriptions in the system by title, subject, or other keywords. This with NARA system is a very quick way to access NAIL instead of going through their home page. There's a link here to the most hit on documents in NAIL or you can view the month by month listing of updates to the now stopped NAIL project. Which we should like to see get going again. Theres some stuff here that is really great stuff.

 FAA Home Page
I thing we all know who these guys are.

  Allegheny Flight Standards District Office
Our local office here in the Western Pa. area.