✈️ Buying or selling an aircraft? Join our Aircraft For Sale Community on X, connecting aircraft buyers, sellers, brokers and aviation enthusiasts from around the world. 🛩️ Aircraft for sale 🔎 Aircraft wanted 💰 Price reductions 📣 New listings Join the community 👇 xitter.cf/i/communities/18736899… #AircraftForSale #Aviation #Aircraft

Jet-like handling with a fan behind the cockpit. The German RFB Fantrainer 400 used a 420-horsepower turbine to train pilots without jet-sized fuel bills. A rare aircraft with a novel idea behind it. #Aviation #AvGeek #Aircraft #MilitaryAviation #AviationHistory

Early MiG-29s sealed their main intakes on the ground, breathing through louvres above the wing roots instead. Gravel stayed out on rough frontline strips. At about 200 km/h on takeoff the intakes swung open. Which Cold War design feature do you reckon shows the biggest difference between Soviet and Western thinking? #MiG29 #ColdWarAviation #SovietAviation #Fulcrum #AvGeek

In April 1942 sixteen B-25s took off from USS Hornet to bomb Japan. Spotted by a picket boat, they launched far earlier than planned. Landing back aboard was never an option, so most crews ran dry over China. Would you have volunteered for a raid where the landing plan was mostly hope? #B25Mitchell #DoolittleRaid #USSHornet #WW2Aviation #AvGeek

Thailand’s F-86L Sabre traded cannons for twenty-four unguided rockets, using radar to intercept enemy bombers. A distinctive Cold War aircraft preserved at the Royal Thai Air Force Museum in Bangkok. #Aviation #AvGeek #Aircraft #MilitaryAviation #F86Sabre

The Me 262 first flew in April 1941 with a Jumo 210 piston engine in the nose, because its jets were not ready. Wise move. When BMW 003s were fitted in 1942, both failed on the first flight and the propeller brought it home. Pure jet flight came that July. Would you have trusted those early jets without the propeller still bolted on? #Me262 #Messerschmitt #JetAge #WW2Aviation #AvGeek

In 1969 the Marines ordered British Harriers to fight from small ships and short strips near the troops. McDonnell Douglas then redesigned it with a bigger composite wing, carrying more fuel and weapons. The twist? The RAF ended up flying the redesign as the Harrier GR5. Do you reckon the F-35B is a worthy successor to the Harrier or has something been lost along the way? #AV8B #Harrier #USMC #JumpJet #AvGeek

The Privateer carried the Bat, a radar guided glide bomb, against Japanese shipping in 1945. Postwar it flew into typhoons as a weather hunter, then fought American wildfires as an airtanker until 2002. Not bad for a Liberator the Navy stretched to fit a flight engineer. Which retired warbird do you reckon had the most unexpected second career? #PB4Y2 #Privateer #NavalAviation #Warbirds #AvGeek

Can you name the airfield? Clue: Just east of Brackley, this field opened in November 1942 and trained bomber crews on Wellingtons and B-25 Mitchells. It served as a satellite to a neighbour that later became a world famous racing circuit. Reopened as a civil aerodrome in 1994, it now helps handle the Grand Prix weekend crowds. #AviationHistory #WW2 #BomberCommand #AerialPhotography #AvGeek

✈️ INTERESTED IN AIRCRAFT SALES? Join our Aircraft For Sale Group: facebook.com/groups/globalai… #AircraftForSale #AircraftSales #Aviation #GeneralAviation #Aircraft

Grumman flew the Bearcat prototype just nine months after the Navy ordered it, a pocket fighter wrapped around an R-2800. VF-19 was operational by May 1945 and heading for the Pacific when Japan surrendered. Its first combat came years later, flying for France in Indochina. How do you reckon the Bearcat would have fared over Japan if the war had dragged into 1946? #F8FBearcat #Grumman #WW2Aviation #NavalAviation #AvGeek

In November 1944 a modified PBJ-1H, the US Navy's version of the Mitchell, somehow managed to catch an arrestor wire aboard USS Shangri-La before being fired straight back into the air by the catapult. Whoever suggested that test must've either been a genius or completely out of their mind. Do you think a carrier operated B-25 could ever have worked in regular service, or was this always destined to be a gloriously bonkers experiment? #B25Mitchell #Warbirds #AviationHistory #WWIIAviation #MilitaryAviation

Can you name the airfield? Clue: On the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, this wartime field trained Wellington bomber crews from 1943. Its perimeter track later hosted the very first round of the Formula One World Championship in 1950. One of today's fastest stretches is still called Hangar Straight. #AviationHistory #WW2 #BomberCommand #AerialPhotography #MotorsportHistory

Can you name the airfield? Clue: Just south west of Bletchley Park, this Buckinghamshire satellite field trained Wellington crews from 1942, with P-40 Tomahawks playing the enemy in mock fighter attacks. A nearby water tower stood on the runway centreline, yet the RAF did not consider it an obstruction. Today it is mostly farmland. #AviationHistory #WW2 #BomberCommand #AerialPhotography #AvGeek

In 1942 Rolls-Royce test pilot Ronnie Harker flew an Allison Mustang at Duxford. Lively low down, wheezing up high. His suggestion? Bolt in a two stage Merlin. Hucknall built the conversion and Packard built the engines. Within two years the bombers had escorts to Berlin. Do you reckon the Mustang would be remembered at all if Ronnie Harker had not flown it that day? #P51Mustang #Mustang #RollsRoyceMerlin #WW2Aviation #AvGeek

2007 Van’s RV-7 For Sale In United Kingdom (G-RVUK) This 2007 Van’s RV-7 is available for £129,950 with 833.45 airframe and engine hours. Powered by a 180 HP Lycoming O-360-A1A with a Hartzell constant-speed propeller, G-RVUK combines strong performance with an exceptionally low 485.8 kg empty weight and approximately 331 kg useful load. The cockpit features a Dynon D180 EFIS/EMS, moving-map GPS and Icom radio, while its LAA Permit to Fly is valid until June 2027. Click the link to view the full specs ✈️ avpay.aero/company/ck-aviati… #VansRV7 #VansAircraft #GeneralAviation #AircraftForSale #AvPayAero

Can you name the airfield? Clue: Near Leighton Buzzard, this Buckinghamshire field trained Wellington crews who joined the Thousand Bomber raids of 1942. In spring 1945 it welcomed home nearly 33,000 freed prisoners of war. Decades later a commission picked the area for London's third airport, but the government said no. #AviationHistory #WW2 #BomberCommand #AerialPhotography #AvGeek

A closer look at the de Havilland Chipmunk, the two-seat trainer that served the Royal Thai Air Force from 1950 to 1989, with 66 aircraft operated during its service. #Aviation #AvGeek #Aircraft #MilitaryAviation #AviationHistory

In 1941 Hurricanes were bolted to rocket catapults on merchant ships to chase off Condors shadowing Atlantic convoys. Most were one way trips. After the fight, pilots ditched or bailed out near the convoy and waited for a pickup. Only one pilot was lost. Would you have volunteered for a job where the landing was always in the North Atlantic? #HawkerHurricane #Hurricat #CAMship #WW2Aviation #AvGeek

2019 Tecnam P2010 MKII For Sale In France (F-HSGO) This 2019 Tecnam P2010 MKII is available POA with 2,053 total airframe hours. Fully equipped for IFR operations, it features a Garmin glass cockpit, GFC 700 autopilot, ADS-B In & Out, WAAS GPS capability and a 215 HP Lycoming IO-390 engine. With four seats, DME and ADF equipment, it offers a versatile platform for advanced training, private touring and cross-country flying. Click the link to view the full specs ✈️ avpay.aero/company/altairavi… #TecnamP2010 #TecnamAircraft #GeneralAviation #AircraftForSale #AvPayAero

Can you name the airfield? Clue: On the Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire border, this airfield's American B-17s and B-24s fought with paper and radio, dropping leaflets at night and jamming German radar to fake phantom bomber formations. In 1946 it was renamed after a neighbouring village. The Great Train Robbery happened just down the line in 1963. #AviationHistory #WW2 #8thAirForce #AerialPhotography #AvGeek