About the Fighter Factory

About the WWI Aircraft Building Contest
Eight campuses from the Aviation Institute of Maintenance are competing to see who can build the best WWI replica aircraft.

◊ WWI Competition Progress

About the Virginia Beach Airport & Museum
The Fighter Factory has relocated to its new airport. Located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, this airport will allow for more space for our ever growing fleet of historical World War Two airplanes.

◊ Virginia Beach Airport

Search & Recovery
The Fighter Factory engages in the discovery, examination, recovery and restoration of military propeller airplanes from the World War Two era. Researching the history of a crash site and the aircraft itself is a time consuming processes neccesary for the restoration of an aircraft.

◊ About our aircraft search & recovery efforts and the equipment we use.

About our Aircraft Restoration
Restoring an aircraft to its original condition is even more time consuming and requires a passion for this important time in history. While restoring these aircraft is important, tracing these historic planes is just as important if we are to learn and enjoy these relics from the past.

◊ Current aircraft restoration projects.
◊ Equipment used in aircraft restoration.

About or Our Schools
We are part of the Aircraft Discovery Division of the Aviation Institute of Maintenance, a leading aviation maintenance school with campuses in Atlanta, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Virginia Beach and Washington D.C., Dallas and Orlando. If you know the possible location of a forgotten military crash, please help our school by describing it or contacting us at our address. We will offer a cash reward for any information regarding former combat aircraft.

◊ About our Schools
◊ Aviation Maintenance School Student Request

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