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While on a visit to the Pima Air Museum in Tucson (AZ) René Klok had a lucky day. He had the chance to visit the museum storage area which is normally closed to the public.

In this area he ran into five Boeing-Vertol CH-46E Sea Knights that were subjected to some form of maintenance.

The mechanics told him that these would be made active again and were to be flown to Texas in a few weeks’ time. They are destined for the National United States Armed Forces Museum in Houston (TX).

Recently, on 19 September 2022 five veteran former US Navy Sea Knights were registered in the US civil register, destined for the NUSAFM. The museum already owns an airworthy HH-46E registered as N7678F.

It flies in its original colours of an US Marines Corps rescue helicopter with serial 157678. These HH-46 were used as plane guards for carrier operations, nicknamed ‘Pedro’.

It is thanks to our former Scramble editor René Klok (thank you!) that we can show you images of the five Sea Knights concerned. It is still unknown if they are all going to make it to Tucson. Seeing the condition of some of the machines we have our doubts but we keep our fingers crossed!

The Polish Fundacja Eskadra / Squadron Foundation is hoping to restore Lim-5 a Polish-built MiG-17 to an airworthy condition.

The Polish Fundacja Eskadra / Squadron Foundation which already owns Europe's only airworthy single-seat Lim-2 (Mig-15bis) as well as the double-seat SBLim-2 (Mig-15UTI) is hoping to restore to an airworthy condition a Lim-5 (Mig-17).

The restoration might begin as soon as the end of this year and will take around 2-3 years, when completed this will be Europe's only airworthy Mig-17.

At the sacred grounds of Duxford aerodrome, UK, the second British registered Grumman Wildcat, G-KINL, was recently revealed to the public.

The fighter is an Eastern built FM-2 model with BuNo86690 (c/n 5744) The FM-2 is an improved version of the original F4F Grumman design. It has a 1350 hp engine and a taller fin than the F4F.