Delivered in 1979. Later equipped with equipped with ELT-165 Gufo ECM/ELINT electronics, active at least till mid-2000s

Christophorus 33 (this is the saint who takes care of the travellers) from the OEAMTC, the Austrian car-drivers association, giving a demonstration at the Flugplatzfest Spitzerberg

Inbound to Rwy 12 for a fuel stop on its delivery flight across the pond.

Originally built as a P-63 fighter, later converted to RP-63G and then re-designated as QF-63G in 1948. These were used as manned live-fire targets in which a pilot would fly the Kingcobra while bomber gunners fired special frangible lead and plastic bullets at it. The aircraft's skin was reinforced and fitted with over a hundred microphones. When a bullet hit the aircraft, a light in the propeller hub would flash and a counter in the cockpit registered, earning it the nickname "Pinball"

LouIV in grey camouflage at the warbird area of AirVenture 2018

Tony Lloyd photo

The P-39 Airacobra was sent to the Soviet Union through the US Lend-Lease program in huge numbers, with roughly 5,000 aircraft delivered via a trans-Siberian air route or shipped in crates via Iran. The Soviets found it effective as a low-to-mid altitude fighter and ground-attack aircraft. Over 2,500 of them were flown from the US to Alaska, then across the Bering Strait to Siberia as part of the ALSIB route, a dangerous but fast delivery method. This one, which must have been recently restored at the time, still stands as a monument on that supply route

Ex N81FC and VH-CRQ, later PK-BRU and PK-USA

Newly registered to BCal Helicopters just a month before this show appearance, this B214 ditched 12nm NE of Frazerburgh on 15th May 1986 following collective control failure on a return flight from Sumburgh to Aberdeen. It was recovered, repaired and sold to Bristow Australia as VH-LHT, changing to VH-BEE. After reverting to G-BKFN with Bristow in 1995, to LZ-CAW but again returned with UK reg. In 2007 became N727HT then C-GDYZ in 2010 with Helicopter Transport Services Canada. Crashed on 7th June 2021 during fire suppression ops near Nipigon in Ontario after tail rotor failure. Repaired again