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  General Links

• Accident-Report.com: An excellent site that provides research resources for military records, including those for crewmembers, units, and aircraft.
  
• Aerofiles: The premier source of American aircraft data, including specifications and registration information, and more.
  
• Airic's Aviation Photography From Ontario and Northeastern States: Eric Dumigan's personal site loaded with vintage aviation photography.
  
• Airmen.Com: A website offering a large listing of aviation links and a special email address for pilots.
  
• Airliners.Net: A site dedicated primarily to airline photos but many many vintage aircraft types also. Excellent selection of varied photos.
  
• Airline Crash Database: Perhaps a bit morbid, but an excellent database source for commercial crash information dating to 1920.
  
• Aircraft Fotoimages: A selection of aircraft photos for sale; also, an aircraft identification quiz.
  
• American Aviation Historical Society: The site for the historical society and its excellent Journal.
  
• Association of Transport Photographers and Historians: A source for classic black and white photos of world-wide aviation subjects, with over 300,000 images on file.
  
• Aviation Archeology Investigation and Research: A nice site devoted to aviation archeology, including many crash site details and research tools.
  
• Joe Baugher's Home Page: An excellent military aircraft serial number resource with other "goodies."
  
• Check-Six: A site offering unique collectibles and history. Also, information about some California crash sites, an Aero Store, news, and a pilot's lounge with some interesting material.
  
• Classic Wings: One of the best warbird magazines around, concentrating on the New Zealand and 'down under' scene but stuff about 'up over' also. Good book reviews, too.
  
• Eagle Field: Site for the historical Eagle Field Museum located at Los Banos, California.
  
• EAA: Web site for the Experimental Aircraft Association.
  
• Flight Training Field Fuselage Codes of World War II: A fascinating research project into a relatively obscure topic.
  
• FlyPast Magazine: One of the best vintage aviation magazines available.
  
• Great Aviation Quotes: Dave English's collection of aviation and space related quotations.
  
• Landings: One of the most comphrensive aviation sites, including search engines and current news.
  
• MAPS Air Museum: Site for the Military Aviation Preservation Society (MAPS) and their growing museum at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport in Ohio.
  
• Model Aces: Professionally built scale model airplane replicas. Specializing in WWII military aircraft - 1/32 and 1/48 scale - these museum display quality models have outstanding detail.
  
• "Navy VP"-U.S. Navy Patrol Squadrons: Dedicated to the men and women of the United States Navy flying "ASW" (VP/VPB) Patrol Aircraft (past and present). Now even has some material about the PB-1W. Great site.
  
• Pilots-log.com: Podcasts and good stuff about airshows and airplanes.
  
• Pilot Portal: Pilot Weather Briefing, Flight Schools USA, Aviation Directory.
  
• Procockpits.Com: Advance flight concepts for the General Aviation pilot.
  
• Prop-Liners of America: Site for Prop-Liners of America, a volunteer organization to promote the restoration, exhibition and display of propeller driven airliners at airshows and open houses throughout the continental United States.
  
• Twin Beech.com: For all those fans of the good old Twin Beech, a.k.a Beech 18, C-45, SNB, etc. Based at Stockton, California, the company is actually more than just Twin Beeches but that's a good place to start. Also, information about a Central California vintage group, the World War II Warbird group that meets every other month.
  
• UK Airport News: uk-airport-news.info is the UK's first and only complete UK airport news website.
  
• US Warplanes.net: A reference guide to the designations and serial numbers of the definitive World War II, post World War II and present day aircraft of the US Armed Forces, by Simon Beck.
  
• Warbird Digest: Homepage of a great new quarterly aviation journal dedicated to the world of warbirds.
  
• The Willie Victor Page: A site dedicated to the Lockheed WV-1 Warning Star.
  
• Wreckchasing: An interesting site dedicated to the art of Wreck Chasing-researching and locating old aircraft crash sites, with books and other resources available (Yo, Nick!).
  
• X-Planes: Site of HPM Publications, specializing in the documentation of experimental aircraft, from the X-2 to the Soviet Space Shuttle.
  

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