Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular. He has a particular penchant for documenting specific airframes with a highly ...

Click to open image viewer. The fast and rugged Spad XIII was among the most successful fighters of World War I, in a class with the legendary Fokker D.VII and Sopwith Camel. It was flown by some of ...

On this day in aviation history-April 4, 1917-the SPAD S.XIII fighter biplane took to the skies for the first time. Developed as an evolution of the earlier SPAD S.VII, the S.XIII was Société Pour ...

Click to open image viewer. The Spad XVI was a two-seat version of the very successful single-seat Spad fighters of World War I, the Spad VII and the Spad XIII. The first Spad two-seater design to see ...