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December 20, 2019

Airborne 12.20.19: FW-190 Flies Again, Lilium Jet Testing, Enstrom's 60th

Also: Tyndall AFB Rebuild, Gulfstream SAF Milestone, Congress Creates 'Space Force', Delta Rejoins A4A

A Focke-Wulf FW 190 belonging to the Tri-State Warbird Museum in Cincinnati, OH, has made its first flight. The flight is the culmination of a project that has been underway for several years. According to Charlie Hotel Aviation, the plane was built around the nameplate of an FW190 F-8 which was shot down in 1944. It was manufactured by Arado company which was one of several companies building FW 190s during the war. This nameplate was salvaged together with other parts and shipped to the U.S. in 2000. Rebuilding around a nameplate reportedly makes the airplane a genuine FW-190, and not a replica, according to Charlie Hotel Aviation. Lilium Jet has released a video of a three-m

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