LINKS TO OTHER AVIATION SITES
Essential Warbird Reference Sites
USAF
/ US Navy serial numbers
Everything you want to know about US serial numbers, including a vast database
of all known serial numbers up to the present day - USAF, US Army and US Navy.
Top site by Joe Baugher for checking an individual aircraft's history!!!
Airbus /
Boeing / Convair / Douglas
Registrations and c/n's to all of the above manufacturers. Excellent site and
often updated by Peter Riool.
www.aerofiles.com
Top site for quick references, lists all known US aircraft companies,
engine manufacturers and aircraft types.
www.kensaviation.com
Photos plus aircraft company histories and engine manufacturers information.
www.scramble.nl
Fantastic backgrounders on most of the worlds air forces,
plus a quick reference database for checking serial numbers.
British
Military Aircraft
Serial numbers for Post-World War II RAF aircraft.
Canadian
Military Aircraft
Serial numbers and histories for RCAF / CAF aircraft by B. Walker.
Australian
/ New Zealand Military Aircraft
Serial numbers and histories of all Australian and New Zealand military
aircraft. Excellent research site for military aircraft from "down-under".
Kiwi
Aircraft Images
Excellent site by Phillip Treweek about New Zealand civil / military aircraft
with detailed text and photos.
www.preservedaxisaircraft.com
An excellent site for the latest on the location of surviving Axis Warbirds.
www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org
A vast database of Warbird types, histories and ownership both past and
present.
www.warbirdalley.com
Background information and specifications on many Warbird aircraft.
A selection of top aviation sites
Aviation
History & Photography
Q&A, photos, discussion forums and much more by Ruud Leeuw.
www.oldwings.nl
Great stories and background information on many propliners by Aad
van der Voet.
The
Aviation Zone
Top site for US "heavies". Detailed text and photos.
Douglas
DC-3 / C-47
The place to go for anything concerning this classic aircraft.
www.sentinelclub.org
Everything you need to now about the Stinson L-5 Sentinel by James Gray.
www.herkybirds.com
All
about the C-130 Hercules, thousands of photos and a production database.
www.chinook-helicopter.com
Fantastically detailed site on the CH-47
Chinook in US Army service.
www.pacificwrecks.com
Detailed site concerning histories and discoveries of WWII wrecks in the
Pacific region.
Old
& Abandoned Airfields
An excellent site for old WW2 era US air-bases and airfields by Paul
Freeman.
www.1000aircraftphotos.com
A fantastic selection of historical photographic collections
with
e-mail addresses to many of the photographers.
www.historicaircraftphotos.com
A well crafted website with a selection of WW2 era photos.
www.businessaviationtraining.com
Directory based site for aviation businesses including aviation
based articles.
www.cfipilot.com
A shopping site for flyers needing aviation related items.
Two
C-119 books by Charles L. Lunsford
A link to order from Amazon.com two books concerning the C-119. Charles Lunsford
was
a radio operator in Europe during the 1950's and recounts his experiences in the
non-fiction
book "Departure Message" (2001). He also has a second fictional book,
his first novel, where
a C-119 crashes behind the Iron Curtain in "Boxcar Down" (2005).