Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Aerial view. Drake Field was the commercial airport for northwest Arkansas until the opening of the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) in Highfill, Arkansas in 1998. It was served by Central Airlines with Douglas DC-3 prop aircraft and later with Convair 600 turboprops from 1955 until Central was acquired by the original Frontier Airlines in 1967.
The wooden hangar in which the Arkansas Air & Military Museum is housed is one of the few surviving such buildings from the 1940s and is listed on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places; [2] [5] [6] it previously served as the headquarters for a military aviation training post during World War II.
August 11 – During an airshow in Michelstadt, Germany, a Fokker Dr.1 replica triplane crashed into a field outside the show area, killing the pilot. [237] The BFU report says that the cause of the accident was a damaged piece of metal in the vertical stabilizer that broke during flight and made the vertical stabilizer, and in consequence the ...
The United States Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet RHINO Demo Team flies during the air show at Field of Flight Air Show & Balloon Festival in Battle Creek on Sunday, July 7, 2024.
Prior to XNA, Drake Field in Fayetteville was the primary airport, but its operational limitations prompted the search for a more capable facility. In 1990, the Northwest Arkansas Council, a private, non-profit organization, was formed with Alice L. Walton as its first chairperson.
The air show will return to Mather Airport for the weekend of March 22 and 23. The Blue Angels last performed at the airshow in 2019, said spokesperson Lindsey Nelson. Sacramento will be the ...
In addition to the air show and the Harley festival, there'll be the final weekend of Summerfest, July 4-6; the Republican National Convention July 15-18, and German Fest, July 26-28.
In 2000, Airshow legend Bob Hoover performed the last flight of his Shrike Commander at the fly-in. [14] Two years later, Bobby Younkin debuted the world's first aerobatic Learjet. [15] During the 2004 show, Bruce Bohannon and his turbocharged Exxon Flyin' Tiger set four time to climb world records. [16]