Parking Please read carefully, as this is NEW to the Air Expo this year: Free parking is available on base. To access on-base parking, you must reserve a parking pass in advance. We will be releasing the link to our ticketing system soon; you can sign up for your parking pass and receive up-to-date...

It was #OTD in 1968 when a Sikorsky CH-54A Tarhe, the Army version of the civilian S-64 Skycrane, set two Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Records for Time to Altitude: 1 minute, 38.2 seconds to get to 3,000 meters, and 7 minutes, 54 seconds to get to 9,000 meters! https://www.fac...

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#OTD in 1944, two Lockheed YP-80A Shooting Stars were sent to RAF Burtonwood in Lancashire, England, making the Shooting Star the United States’ first operational jet fighter. Did you know that the US had jet fighters in action during WWII? https://www.facebook.com/CommemorativeAF/photos/a.34551807...

On this date in 1947 the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 flew for the first time. https://www.facebook.com/avgeekery/posts/450808186415804?__cft__[0]=AZWUKHmbckBn0uIpeIfETkzL_-W5-Rdzep6wkzHl9lYCGaP63XAfm3LlUpmqjckJyXqax04kS8qDZ-ic-fLekkk9UvbFR0T6gSruQbtvIoYWOaXBDngFDZEXJZuywAv4l57CW4hvD0N_hsAGS1V6imAGFxxVR...

You can add Holloman AFB to the Thunderbirds' schedule.
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On this date in 1944 F/L RJ Audet, flying a Supermarine Spitfire of No. 411 (Fighter) Squadron RAF destroyed five enemy fighters near Rheine, Germany in his first combat. https://www.facebook.com/avgeekery/posts/450312179798738?__cft__[0]=AZVm6W8aBDQgUrt_gpG1Yqq3OrxiBh50AU1CHSWDYeOw1ba1IYqowW-rtQv0...

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