Round Engine Aero

11/19/2025

If you know, you know..... lots coming in this week, some even N.O.S. Can you identify them all?

11/18/2025

🚨REA EXCLUSIVE🚨

Have you ever heard of the Beechcraft QU-22B Pave Eagle? It was a highly modified Model 36 Bonanza made to be operated remotely to monitor traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Only 27 were ever converted. We are pleased to offer the ONLY KNOWN SURVIVING ground control panel for one!

https://roundengineaero.com/product/qu-22b-ground-control-panel/

11/12/2025

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11/10/2025

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11/07/2025

What might we have today?

11/04/2025

After almost 50 years, our YB-36 has an instrument panel again! It was quite an effort to track down so we're pleased to say this is not a replica or a panel from another -36, this is actually the original one from this aircraft!

11/03/2025

We've been quite busy this summer, we have brought in several inventories including WW2 parts off market since 1946, Captured Luftwaffe and IJN parts, C-54 Spares, turret pieces, Vietnam era cockpit items and more! Being listed on our site soon

06/07/2025

Another great gone west

Maj. Gen. William Anders, the Apollo 8 astronaut who took the famous “Earthrise” photo in 1968, was featured as one of Eric Johnson’s “Heroes” in May 2017. A...

03/19/2025

This month we have a rare 1937 Cessna C-37 Airmaster now available

https://roundengineaero.com/product/cessna-airmaster-airframe/

02/13/2025

Complete Douglas C-54 available for limited time. Is not ferriable. Must be removed within the next 2 months under our supervision. Located in deep south USA. No photos at this time

01/01/2025

On this last day of 2024 we have what is the biggest news of the year. After years of negotiating we are quite pleased to announce Round Engine Aero's acquisition of the surviving airframe remains of the Convair YB-36 Peacemaker. This is the ONLY B-36 of the 384 built to be in civilian hands!

The YB-36 was the second prototype B-36(XB-36), the first with the iconic bubble canopy. The construction of this historic airframe began in 1942, only a short time after America officially entered World War II. The Army Air Corps sought a bomber that could fly from North America to Europe and return, without refueling.

The war ended before our adversaries knew of the B-36, and the sites were now set on the Soviet union. The B-36 was the only aircraft in our arsenal with the range and payload to carry atomic bombs from American soil to the USSR. This airframe was subsequently transferred from Convair to Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico as part of Strategic Air Command's 72nd Bomb Wing.

With the addition of all jet bombers to the Air Force's inventory, the B-36 was phased out. A decision was made that for the history this airframe held, she deserved to be saved, and she was flown to be placed on display for all to see in front of the National Museum of the United States Air Force!

Unfortunately after a decade on display outside, the mostly magnesium body that also spent years in service in the Caribbean, was now in very poor condition. The Air Force, who was now moving their Museum, decided it would be much cheaper & easier to fly in another B-36 for display and let this one go.

In 1972, only 30 years after she was America's ace in the hole, she met the scrapper's torch. The caretaker previous to us acquired the cut up remains from the scrapper before it was smelted down and transported them to his property, where he partially reassembled the cockpit and placed it on display.

We acquired this airframe in 2024

We will be releasing additional information on this airframe including future plans and more photographs in the upcoming months. This aircraft & ALL parts we have for it are NOT for sale in any capacity! The watermarks are for the individuals that keep publishing our photographs without crediting us. Thank you!

Thank you to everyone else and have an incredible 2025!

12/26/2024

Merry Christmas!