The Flying Bulls collect very special historic aircraft. And they fly them, too.
It all got off the ground with a rickety old North American T-28B "Trojan" warbird built in 1954 and a couple of aircraft-crazed tinkerers from Tirol. Dedicated and untiring, they had a good feel for airplanes. The growing bunch of enthusiasts later transferred their base from Innsbruck to Salzburg and named themselves the Flying Bulls. And that’s when the whole shebang really took wing.
These days the Flying Bulls are so professional, they have their own pilot-in-chief: Sigi Angerer. He knows each of the Bulls’ planes like the back of his hand, and his favorite pastime is – you’ve got it – flying. He doesn’t mess around in the welding, riveting and painting departments – there’s a highly specialized team on hand to take care of such things.
Angerer is also heavily involved in the search for gems of aviation. And as illustrated by the two most recent acquisitions, quite successfully so. In 2004, the Douglas DC-6 rescued from Africa completed its years-long restoration and now is operationally better than ever before, soaring as a real eye-catcher for the entire vintage aircraft scene.
The Flying Bulls also acquired the famous Lockheed P-38L from American flying legend Lefty Gardner. The airplane with the double fuselage required some restoration, to put it mildly, and is presently being worked on in the USA. If everything runs according to plan, it will settle into its new home in Salzburg later this year.
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