Aviation Links

Aviation Links

The following aviation links I find myself useful and interesting enough to visit them on a regular basis and they may be useful to others.
Last 'weeded' 07Oct2016, but if you find them no longer active, plse send me an EMAIL ? Thanks for your help!

UPDATED 15-Jan-2025

Airtankers

Butler Aircraft Co. of Redmond, Oregon
Air Spray, the Canadian airtanker company from Alberta
Conair, they don't just fly airtankers, they make'em !
Coulson Flying Tankers, of Port Alberni, Vancouver Island
Airtanker.com
Spotfireimages.com impressive photowork and lots of info
History of Aviation in the B.C. Forest Service (2011, .pdf document)

Companies & outfits operating 'Round Engines'

DC-3 'Night Fright'(being) restored
Red Bulls in Hangar-7, Salzburg, Austria
Springbok Flying Safaris, of South Africa
Transnorthern Aviation, Anchorage: "Flying Alaska. On Demand".
www.flyingboxcar.com, two C-119s stored at Palmer, Alaska.
Buffalo Airways, propliner fans have friends in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.
Everts Air Alaska

Propliners and Prop transports

www.proplinerinfoexchange.com
A Flying History, the aviation photo collection of Peter Keating, compiled during 40 years of worldwide travel
John Hume Aviation Photography
www.zoggavia.com Paul Zogg's Classic Airliner Photography
G-159 Historical Research Museum All 200 airframes represented, over 600 images !
Jon Proctor's Planes Photography (Sadly, Jon Proctor died 22Apr2020, aged 78 - website still up 15Jan2025)
The Douglas DC-6 Association of South Africa
www.dc-3.co.za, Dakota Association of South Africa (DASA)
www.uswarplanes.net, Simon Beck tracks the history of vintage planes used in films (has a book published on the subject)
Canadair CL-44, Peter van Leeuwen's website on the Canadair CL-44 "Swingtail"
TwinBeech.com, Taigh Ramey's website on the Beech 18 and more
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
The Catalina Preservation Society (TCPS), Victoria,B.C is home of C-FUAW
The Catalina Society, home of Plane Sailing
Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (Australia), a.k.a. the HARS; their fleet include a Lockheed Super Constellation
www.dhc4and5.org, Wayne E.Buser's website on the Caribou and Buffalo
Danish Dakota Friends
Old Wings , Aad van der Voet's website on Vintage Transports
www.supercub.org, read up on Alaska bushflying and transport on the Last Frontier
Save-a-Viking, a project to restore Viking G-AIVG at Basle AP
Lockheed Constellation Survivors, by Ralph Pettersen
The DC-3 hangar of Trevor Morson, all about the DC-3
DC-3 in Australasia Ron Cuskelly's excellent website; photos and (DC-2 and DC-3) census
www.aircraft-survivors.com Roy Blewett's archive on surviving historic air transports
DDA Classic Airlines (a.k.a. the Dutch Dakota Association) DDA ceased ops 2024 but website still up by 15Jan25
Vickers Viscount Network
Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation, US-based outfit operating a Douglas C-54E and restoring a Boeing C-97
All About Guppys.com

Bushplanes, Seaplanes, Floatplanes

www.yukonflying.com, for everyone with an interest in aviation in the Yukon
www.seaplanes.vn Seaplanes in Vietnam!
www.dhc-2.com Neil Aird's extensive website on the "Airliner of the Bush !"
www.dhc-3archive.com, another 'Neil Aird bushplane' intiative!
deHavilland Twin Otter Archive
Vancouver Island Air.com , at Campbell River, B.C.
Coril Air, at Campbell River, B.C.
www.alaskabushpilot.org, website includes a 'who is who' of early Alaska bushpilots
Atlantic Aircraft Salvage, head office in Enfield, N.Scotia: Parts, Sales, Leasing for Beaver (DHC-2) and Otter (DHC-3) Aircraft
Shaun Lunt was an Alaskan bushpilot and a fantastic photographer! He perished doing what he loved doing best. In Memoriam (2007)
K2 Aviation, Talkeetna, Alaska
Talkeetna Air Taxi, Talkeetna, Alaska
Emerald Air Service, of Homer (Beluga Lake), Alaska
Bald Mountain Air, of Homer,AK.
Regal Air Anchorage,AK
Taquan Air Service Ketchikan,AK
Kenmore Air (Seattle,WA)
Harbour Air (BC, Canada)
Whistler Air, Whistler,BC
Flights North a subsidiary of Tsayta Aviation, with their own website and some fine video footage!
Thunderhook of Armstrong Station, Ontario
River Air, of Minaki, Ontario
Wilderness Air, of Vermilion Bay, Ontario
Viking Outposts of Red Lake, Ontario
- Slate Falls Air (SFA), of Sioux Lookout, Ontario
L & M Fly-in Outposts (clarksresorts.com) of Dryden, Ontario
Air Saguenay / Air Tunlik of Jonquière, Quebec
Labrador Air Service , part of the Air Saguenay Group
noorduynnorseman.blogspot.com by Julie Hicks in honour of her grandfather, Riobert 'Bob' Noorduyn (who passed away in 2008)
www.norsemanhistory.ca, a website and Production List by Don Magnusson and Roy Dishlevoy
www.norsemanfestival.on.ca, its menu includes an active blog

Warbirds

Aero Vintage Books, packed with news and information on the B-17 and B-25
CAF-Commemorative Air Force", a.k.a. Confederate Air Force
Commemorative Air Force Southern California Wing
Warbirds Alley
Warbirds Registry
Nose and Tail Art

Air Shows

Air shows on Scramble.nl

Photo Galleries

AIRHISTORY.NET
Miami 1981: Malcolm 'Shanair' Nason; his gallery on Flickr.com
www.skippyscage.com, Paul Filmer likes to roam around for vintage transports
Airliners.net
JetPhotos.net
PlanePictures.net
Air-Britain's photo gallery

Referential: websites & others

canavbooks.wordpress.com CANAV Books Blog - The first and last word in Canadian aviation publishing since 1981
208caravan.com, Derek Linder's website on the Cessna Caravan - the modern day powerful bushplane
Avcom.co.za/phpBB3/ - Avcom forum (S. Africa)
Herman Dekker's record of the Dutch Registry, 1920-present (in Dutch)
www.europeanairlines.no Rob Mulder's excellent studies of European airlines prior to 1945
ATDB.aero (formerly www.aerotransport.org)
rzjets.net/aircraft - an online database
Airframes.org - an online database
US Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB,AL
Australian Civil Aircraft Register
New Zealand Civil Aircraft Register
Canadian Civil Aircraft Register
Historicccar.ca, Canadian civil aircraft registrations, by Mike Ody & Terry Judge (both from Ontario, Canada)
US Aircraft Register (FAA N-number)
UK Aircraft Register (G-INFO)
www.airlinehistory.co.uk
Oldprops, the mother of all Propliner websites, but for reference not always uptodate
Vickers Viscount Production List
Grumman HU-16 Albatross, including Production list (look for History - Prod List)
Fokker F.27 fleetlist
www.thai-aviation.net, Steve Darke's excellent website on aviation in Thailand
British Aviation - Projects to Production
www.dhc-2.com Neil Aird's extensive website on the "Airliner of the Bush !"
www.dhc-3archive.com, another 'Neil Aird bushplane' intiative!
www.dhc-3 Otter Ian Butter's excellent account of the De Havilland Otter
DHC-4 Caribou Production List
The Twin Otter Archive
www.aviationarchaeology.com
Aerofiles, American Aviation from 1903 to 2003
NTSB Aviation Accidents Database
Aviation Safety Network (ASN) Harro Ranter's excellent website on accidents
baaa-acro.com Aircraft Crashes Record Office, Geneva
www.planecrashinfo.com
The Lockheed Files All about Lockheed aircraft
Peter Riool's production lists of Boeing, Airbus, Convair, Douglas..
Joe Baugher's USAF & USN serials - while Mr Baugher passed on his website continues (15Jan25)
Air America database by Joe Leeker
Airnav.com database on lots of airports and facilities

Aviation Museums

National Museum of the Airforce (Dayton,OH), Check out 'behind the scenes' tour
Toulouse-Blagnac (France), Musée Aeroscopia
Le Musée Historique de l'Hydraviation (in French), Biscarosse, France
The Avro Heritage Museum at Woodford, UK
Dornier Museum, Friedrichshaven, Germany
Northwestern Ontario Aviation Heritage Centre (NOAHC), aviation museum in Thunder Bay under development
The Beechcraft Heritage Museum
www.aviodrome.nl The Dutch National Aviation Theme Park, Aviodrome @ Lelystad
Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, of Anchorage,AK
British Columbia Aviation Museum, Victoria,BC
1940 Air Terminal Project, the vintage Houston Municipal Airport Terminal (with planes!)
Olympic Flight Museum in Washington (state), USA
Planes of Fame USA
Chico Air Museum, Chico, California
Minter Field Air Museum, Shafter (near Bakersfield), California
Pacific Coast Air Museum California,USA
Moffett Field Museum (California,USA)
Warbirds West, Gillespie Field (California, USA)
Cavanaugh Flight Museum (Texas, USA)
World War II Airborne Demonstration Team Foundation, at Frederick, OK
Airline History Museum at Kansas City
Prairie Aviation Museum, Illinois
Yankee Air Museum, at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA.
Golden Wings Museum of Blaine, MN (near Minneapolis)
National Museum of the US Air Force, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Ohio.
Tokorozawa Aviation Museum, Japan
Air Museum Berekfurdo, Hungary, 'Secrets of the Soviet airbase' (historical museum of Soviet airbases in Hungary & Austria)

Websites for radial sounds and dvd/videos

Michael Prophet's propliners on YouTube
Avion Videos, excellent selection of video and DVD's of aviation past and present
Luftfahrt Filmarchiv Manfred Poznanski
Aviation Photography and Video by Alex Waning
www.avionart.com, aviation in fine art

Websites with historic aviation contents

Great American Adventurers: The Wright Brothers and the Airplane
www.baghecht.de, airline's airsickness collected from all over the world
www.airlines-airliners.de, by René Dannies; the website has text in German
Video on the construction of the DEW Line sites: VIDEO ONE and VIDEO TWO
Hawaii Aviation, 4.000+ photos and aviation history in detail
American Aviation Historical Society (AAHS)
Ron's archive, Ron Olsen's website
Cunard Eagle & British Eagle, 1946 - 1968
Civil Aviation in Norway (history)
Arizona Aircraft Archeology
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Dutch Historic Aviation Sites
Ed Coates Collection - a tribute to the life's work of Ed Coates. Since 2019 run by the Civil Avtn Historical Soc. Inc. (Australia)
www.tighar.org, including 'evidence' on where Amelia Earhart ended up
Project North Star, a restoration project of the "Canadian DC-4"
US Civil Registrations, 1927-1946
History of Pakistan Int'l Airlines by Abbas Ali, historic details and lots of photos

Links to Linkpages

Howard Curtis' website 'Mother of all' aviation Link pages

More Aviation Sites

OldJets.net, Jan Koppen's online magazine about first generation jetliners
www.WinnipegACC.org, Phil Gies' website on the history of Winnipeg Area Control Centre, incl The North
Dominion Propellor
Bill Larkins' huge selection on 1000aircraftphotos.com
www.flyingtigerline.org Who could forget "the mother of all cargo airlines"!?
www.cnac.org, CNAC-China National Aviation Corporation
www.lostamerica.com, Troy Prava's unique photography, check "The Planes"!
Airlinerphotos.com Ralph Kunadt's website, airliners as well as propliners
Scramble a treasure trove on both military-, as well as civil aviation

Find answers to questions on...

Aviaforum.ru, look for the 'English-speaking forum'
Professional Pilots Rumour Network -PPRuNe
Scramble Messageboard

Aircraft for sale or charter (classified adds):

Miscellaneous

www.MotoArt.com, into art and ... furniture; all made from aircraft parts!
King of Obsolete, he has his Kingdom in the cold white Canadian North; a few things on planes but all interesting!
Great Circle Mapper
Joint Aviation Authorities (JAR Ops)
How a Radial Engine Works, on "How Stuff Works" website
FAA FAR index
Tropical cyclones

UPDATED 15-Jan-2025

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