The F-16 with the most number of air-to-air kills, seven, has been retired from service and put on display at the IAF Museum in Hatzerim.
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Category: Heritage
F-15 back at Langley AFB
Langley Air Force Base has welcome back an F-15, after the last operational jet left the base in September 2010.
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Crowd funding to get privately owned Zero fighter flyable
There is a crowd funding campaign currently in Japan to get the only Zero fighter privately owned by a Japanese to fly again.
Vickers Wellington may get 311th Czechoslovak Bomber Squadron markings
A Vickers Wellington bomber under restoration at the Royal Air Force Museum might be painted with 311th Czechoslovak Bomber Squadron markings.
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PLA Navy had no political support from Beijing when it bought Varyag
In the second of a two-part series by South China Morning Post, Xu Zengping, said the PLA Navy told him the service was severely underfunded and there was no support in Beijing when they asked him to go to Ukraine to buy Varyag.
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