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Restoring a Boeing FB-5 Hawk: First Plane Designed for Aircraft Carrier Use

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The San Diego Air & Space Museum is in the final stages of restoring an exceedingly rare Boeing FB-5 Hawk, the first aircraft designed and built specifically for use on an aircraft carrier. The basic structure of the Museum’s FB-5 restoration project arrived at Gillespie Field in 2012 from Fred Peters of Corona, California. It was an incomplete tubular steel fuselage with partially complete lower wings, upper wing ribs, and various detail parts, most of...

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