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EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025 is approaching, and the preliminary lineups for all nine airshows are now available online.
In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder I take a look at the incredible Airborne Museum in the Normandy town of Sainte Mère Église, famous for it being the first town liberated by US Forces on D-DAY, 6th ...
Today, we feature the marker at the WACO Aircraft Company (Weaver Aircraft ... The company also managed the U.S. Army’s glider program for 15 companies that produced gliders nationwide.
The two candidates for the District 4 seat on the Waco Independent School District Board of Trustees support public education, agree state funding and backing needs to be increased and hope to ...
Rear cockpit of the Waco YMF-5 biplane “Gracie” at Suncoast Biplanes ... Williams began flying at 17 with the Air Training Corps (ATC), logging his first flight in a glider. Now a certified flight ...
A man has died after a small glider aircraft crashed in Deep River Friday evening. State police said they responded to the area of Cedar Lake Road around 4:15 p.m. after a small glider aircraft ...
The new 45,000-square-foot JUNKERS Aircraft factory is set to be built on the current WACO Aircraft Corporation campus, which also includes CENTENNIAL Aircraft Services. The project is funded by ...
The most widely used glider was the CG-4 built by the Waco Aircraft Company of Troy, Ohio. The plane could carry 13 troopers, a Jeep, a quarter-ton truck, or a 75mm howitzer, plus the pilot and co ...
Names, colors and mascots of the three high schools that combined decades ago to form the modern Waco High School will live on in interior touches for the school’s new campus set to open next year.
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY – The pilot of a glider plane died Friday after the aircraft crashed into a median on State Road 60 west of Interstate 95, officials said. The 57-year-old man was the only ...
These continued into July and August 1944. USAAF C-47 about to ‘snatch’ the cable to retrieve a WACO ‘Hadrian’ glider from a field in 1944. On 2nd September 1944 the aircraft was transferred to the ...