Cow Pastures to Commercial Carriers
The Board of Directors of both the Antique Airplane Association and the Air Power Museum are pleased to announce the 2012 AAA/APM Invitational Fly-in theme: "Cow Pastures to Commercial Carriers", featuring the aircraft of the American Barnstormers Tour (ABT).
It's fitting that we feature the aircraft of the ABT; www.americanbarnstormerstour.com, as that idea was born under the wing of Clay Adams' 1929 Travel Air at Antique Airfield. That was in 2005. Since their first tour in 2006, Clay, Sarah Wilson and their cadre of pilots/airplanes have bi-annually criss-crossed the Midwest keeping the history of Barnstorming alive while introducing scores of young and old alike, to the fun of flying.
While the ABT group of a dozen or so antiques from the 20's & 30's will be arriving at the end of their official tour, we hope they will do a bit of Barnstorming while here at Antique Airfield for the enjoyment of our members and guests.
It's appropriate, as well as complimentary then, that we include the commercial carrier aircraft of the late 20's and 30's as part of our celebrations for 2012.
Clay Adams' Travel Air
We have already confirmed the attendance of two pivotal aircraft from those early days of commercial passenger service. One is Addison Pemberton's Boeing 40C (Pacific Air Transport), the oldest flyable Boeing aircraft extant. The other is Yellowstone Aviation's Stinson Model A tri-motor (American Airlines). We also hope Alan Lopez will be in attendance with his Stearman M-2 (Varney Air Lines), John Cournoyer will return with his Fairchild 71 (Pan American Airways) and other early and significant commercial aviation aircraft will participate.
Also in the works, a re-creation of an historic flight from 1930. It has been a long time since this type flying has been seen at Antique Airfield. Keep checking back here for details as they become available.
Addison Pemberton's Boeing Model 40
Of course we look forward to seeing those new restorations and interesting aircraft that help make the AAA/APM Invitational Fly-in the premiere aviation event for those that fly and love antique aircraft
Start making plans to attend today!