A piece of America’s fighting history will visit the Twin Lakes Area this weekend.The American Warbird Fly-In and Static Display, scheduled for Saturday at the Baxter County Airport in Midway, will feature visits from two World War II-era planes: a B-25 medium bomber and a TBM Avenger torpedo bomber.
Saturday’s fly-in and display is sponsored by Big Air LLC, the airport’s fixed-base operator; the Leading Edge Aviation Foundation; and the Experimental Aircraft Association chapter 755.
The event will begin at 10 a.m. and continue until 4 p.m. and offer airport visitors more than a dozen aircraft on display, plane rides, informational booths, a fundraising raffle and more. Buncles Brick Oven and Brews and Paradice Cream will have food available Saturday at the airport.
Admission is free Saturday, with plane rides requiring a seperate ticket purchse.
In addition to seeing two vintage World War II era planes in person, fly-in attendees may also book rides aboard the historic aircrafts.
Trey Ressler, the manager of Big Air, talks about the some of the history of the B-25, which was introduced in 1941 and served in every theater of World War II.
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Ressler talks about the Avenger toprpedo plane, which was introduced in 1942 and the most effective and widely used torpedo bomber of World War II.
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Leading Edge Aviation Foundation will also be offering discovery flights throughout the event. Leading Edge director Gere Gaige talks about those flights.
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Prizes in the fly-in’s raffle drawing are a 30-minute discovery flight for first prize; an Air Evac membership gift basket for second prize; and a one-year Survival Flight membership for third prize. Raffle tickets are $5, with the drawing benefiting Leading Edge Aviation Foundation.
Gaige describes Leading Edge Aviation Foundation, also known as LEAF.
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The Baxter County Airport is located at 6462 State Highway 126 in Midway. In the event of rain, Saturday, May 29, will serve as the fly-in’s make-up date.
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