The Lockheed P-38 Lightning nicknamed Jandina III made its post-restoration debut at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025, and returned home a Grand Champion.
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Warbird Roundup 2025: Old, new, and evergreen
Like a popular band who know their audience’s demand for evergreen hits, the folks at Warhawk Air Museum repeat much of their successful formula each summer for Warbird Roundup at Nampa Municipal Airport (KMAN) in Idaho.
A rare air show in the Aloha state
As a frequent visitor to Hawaii, it is extra fun to travel there to cover an air show, like the 2025 Kaneohe Bay Airshow.
Living the dream
Crosswinds-Wilson Airport (SC37) is home for Jim and Eileen Wilson, owners of four antique aircraft and a country flying spread most people who love general aviation would consider the epitome of living the dream.
Horse race in the sky: Mustang racers at AirVenture 2025
P-51 Mustang unlimited air racers and their pilots enjoyed a round of appreciation at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025.
Warthog for Warhawk
Fred Johnsen, the force behind the Airailimages YouTube channel and General Aviation News Of Wings & Things columnist, recently posted a video chronicling the last flight, and arrival, of an Idaho Air National Guard (ANG) 124th Fighter Wing A-10 Thunderbolt II at the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, Idaho.
Victorious veteran describes downing German jet fighter at AirVenture
A standing room only crowd at a Warbirds in Review session during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025 was transfixed as Joe Peterburs shared a thrilling encounter between his P-51 and a German Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter during World War II. Joining him during the session were officials with the Military Aviation Museum, who brought the museum’s replica Me 262 jet to Oshkosh.
Flying a family heirloom
William Presler is mighty proud of the P-38 Lightning his uncle, Jim O’Hara, built over the span of about a quarter century, noting It’s sometimes called the TTP-38, for two-thirds size.
Unobtanium: My ride in the Goodyear blimp
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience and you can’t pay for it. You have to be invited to ride on the Goodyear blimp.