The 33-foot Corsair, on loan from Florida, had to be “rigged up on skates” to get to the Intrepid’s hangar deck.

Eight decades after a Dutch Fokker D.VII Fighter was looted by Nazis, the World War I-era fighter biplane is set to return to ...

Adopted by U.S. Marines in the Pacific and integrated into British ... 109 became Germany’s most extensively produced fighter aircraft in WWII, with an estimated production of approximately ...

The P-51 Mustang wasn’t just another fighter - it was the aircraft that changed the course of the air war in Europe. With its long-range capabilities, high speed, and powerful Packard Merlin engine, ...

Douglas SBD-6 Dauntless dive bomber sank 6 Japanese carriers during WWII, including at the ... It was one of the greatest aircraft of the Pacific War - especially early on before it was superseded ...

Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

Entering service in 1940, the Focke-Wulf Fw190 was one of Germany's widely produced planes and was the country's only fighter plane powered by a radial engine. In its base configuration ...

The US Air Force Museum boasts the world's greatest aircraft displays with some of its rarest and most iconic aircraft.

Belly tanks were supplemental gas tanks strapped to World War II fighter planes to help boost their notoriously poor range. However, after the war, racers found another use for them. America's ...

One of the most sinister aircraft of World War II, the Junkers Ju 87 ... and was responsible for destroying 17% of the Luftwaffe fighter fleet. The Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero was incredibly ...

The aircraft was part of Operation Gisela, which saw 117 fighter planes sent to intercept allied bombers returning to base after striking targets in Germany. A number of bombers were brought down ...