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On November 12, 2022, two World War II –era aircraft, a B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra, collided mid-air and crashed during the Wings Over Dallas air show at Dallas Executive Airport in Dallas, Texas, United States. [ 1 ] The air show, which coincided with Veterans Day commemorations, was organized by the Commemorative Air Force.
The Commemorative Air Force on Monday released the names of all six flight crew members who were killed when a P-63 Kingcobra collided with a B-17 Flying Fortress at the CAF’s Wings Over Dallas ...
A Facebook page about the plane identified the B-17 as the one named Texas Raiders, which the Commemorative Air Force website calls “one of the most recognized and popular warbirds.” Out of ...
The Dallas-based nonprofit hosted Saturday’s air show at Dallas Executive Airport, where two warbirds collided at about 1:20 p.m. Four or five crew members were believed to be on the B-17 Flying ...
Texas Raiders was an American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-17G-95-DL built by Douglas Long Beach. In 1967, it was purchased by the Commemorative Air Force 's Gulf Coast Wing "Texas Raiders" group, which maintained and flew the aircraft out of Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport in Conroe, Texas. The aircraft was destroyed on November 12 ...
The Commemorative Air Force(CAF), formerly known as the Confederate Air Force,[1]is an American non-profit organizationbased in Dallas, Texas, that preserves and shows historical aircraft at airshows, primarily in the U.S. and Canada. The CAF has about 13,000 members, more than 70 chapters, and more than 170 aircraft,[2]including the world's ...
The two military fighters collided in midair during a Dallas air show. ... A B-17 with 13 people aboard crashed at a 2019 ... The P-63 in the Dallas show was owned by the Commemorative Air Force ...
On 12 November 2022, P-63F 43-11719, owned by the Commemorative Air Force and piloted by Craig Hutain, collided with Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Texas Raiders at an airshow in Dallas, Texas. 43-11719 was one of only five remaining airworthy P-63s and was the only surviving P-63F of the two that were built. [48]