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WWII flyers to be honored at upstate NY air show this weekend
Posted: 07.08.2010 at 6:04 AM
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GENESEO (AP) -- Members of a famous World War II fighter squadron are among the special guests expected at this weekend's annual air show at Geneseo Airport in western New York.
Organizers with the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group say Saturday and Sunday's event will pay tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen, America's first black combat pilots in the Second World War. Three of the nearly 1,000 original Tuskegee program graduates are scheduled to attend the air show, a 30-year-old event held at a grass airstrip 25 miles south of Rochester.
Historic aircraft scheduled to appear this weekend include World War I planes, four P-51s Mustang fighters, two B-25 bombers, a Douglas Dauntless Navy dive bomber and a Curtis Helldiver.
The F-16 Viper demonstration team from Hill Air Force Base in Utah is also scheduled to take part.
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