WW II Vintage Aircraſt


On July 19 a blast from the past dropped into YLW as a group of WWII Vintage Aircraft spent the night on their way to the Princeton Air Show.


Airport Operations Specialist/Firefighter Barb Haley was on duty when they arrived and sent in these great photos and research highlights – enjoy!


North American Aviation T-28 Trojan The T-28 is a piston-engine military trainer aircraft used by


Boeing PT-27 Stearman Kaydet The Kaydet, the two-seater biplane introduced by


Stearman Aircraft Division of Boeing in Wichita, Kansas, in 1934, became an unexpected success during the Second World War. Kaydets had fabric-covered wooden wings, single-leg landing gear and an over-built welded-steel fuselage. Only radial engines were used for this aircraft that had a maximum speed of 135mph. Between 1936 and 1944, Boeing built 8,584 Kaydets.


Mustang IV (P-51)


With a maximum speed of 400mph, a wingspan of 37 feet and its first flight in 1940, the Mustang IV was originally designed and built in response to a Royal Air Force requirement. Through the use of external long-range fuel tanks, the Mustang was capable of escorting daylight bomber formations all the way to Berlin and back, thus providing much needed protection against marauding German interceptors. This highly capable aircraft went on to fight in the Korean War and, incredibly, still equipped some South American air forces into the 1980s.


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Robin Begin


the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s. Besides its use as a trainer, the T-28 was successfully employed as a Counter-insurgency (COIN) aircraft, primarily during the Vietnam War.


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