Advance tickets are now on sale for the Valiant Air Command’s 35rd annual Tico Warbird Airshow, slated for March 9-11.
Tickets are on sale at TicketDerby.com, or at the museum’s website.
The theme this year honors the 70th anniversary of the famed “Doolittle Raiders.” There will be aircraft on static display, such as the F-14, ME-208, F-80, F-86 A-6, F-8, A-4, F-9 Panther, Wildcat, MiG-15 and MiG-21, C-123 and many others. Also, flying will be many B-25s; along with vintage warbirds such as the P-51, Corsair, P-40, T-6, T-28, T-34, L-39, aerobatic teams and military demonstrations and FIFI, world’s only flying B-29 Superfortress.
Gates open at 8:30 a.m. and the airshow starts around 1 p.m., but there is plenty to do in the morning. There will be a flight line full of warbirids on exhibit with veteran pilots or aircraft historians standing by to tell you all about them, World War II re-enactors, antique automobiles, vintage armor, games, music, lots of vendors, exhibitors and more, organizers promise.
For more information: 268-1941, VACWarbirds.org
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