ON THE COVER:
Lockheed Constellation Bataan airborne on 4 July 2023. Photography by Michael O’Leary

FEATURES:

COST OF WAR
Delving into the Challenge archives, we present more graphic photographs of aircraft lost during WWII / by Michael O’Leary

TUMULT OVER TUNISIA
Concluding the combat saga of the 14th Fighter Group and its war against the Axis / by Steve Blake

CONSTELLATION
Inside the amazing restoration of the Air Legends Foundation’s Lockheed C-121A Constellation that had once been the personal aircraft of Gen. Douglas MacArthur / by Michael O’Leary, Joe Scheil, and Ralph M. Pettersen

THE GHOST OF KALIKAT CREEK
Beginning the process of rebuilding a Consolidated
LB.30 Liberator back to flying condition / by Nicholas A. Veronico

DEPARTMENTS:

MESSAGE FROM PUBLISHER

WARBIRD & CLASSIC REPORT
What’s new at the Palm Springs Air Museum along with all the latest vintage and veteran aircraft news / by Doug Fisher

LOG ENTRIES
Recalling The Flying Hendersons and their attempted record flights / by Mark Bingham

SHORT FINAL
Mysteries of the Spitfire data plates and what makes a “real” Spitfire / by Peter Arnold

FRIDAY NIGHT OLDIES
More great Kodachromes of surplus ex-military aircraft / by Doug Fisher

DOWN MEMORY’S RUNWAY
Aircraft from aviation’s glorious past / by Norm Taylor

AIRLINES
News and views from the readers of Air Classics