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CAF
Newsroom
The latest news from CAF Headquarters can be found
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| July 23,2006 |
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World's Only Flyable B-29 Needs Help to
Return to Flight |
| MIDLAND, TEXAS
– (July 10, 2006) – The Commemorative Air
Force’s B-29 Fifi – the world’s only flyable
B-29 – has been temporarily grounded by
engine problems. To return the rare airplane
to flight, the B-29/B-24 Squadron (the group
within the CAF tasked with the
responsibility and privilege of maintaining
and flying the plane) needs to raise... |
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| July 23,2006 |
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UTPB Student Wins CAF Competition |
| MIDLAND, TEXAS
– (July 3, 2006) – Michelle Harrison, an art
student at the University of Texas of the
Permian Basin and Odessa resident, has been
selected as the winner of the Commemorative
Air Force’s first poster competition... |
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| July 23,2006 |
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CAF to Hold First Flight Academy for Civil
Air Patrol Cadets |
| MIDLAND, TEXAS
– (July 5, 2006) – The Commemorative Air
Force’s first Aviation Heritage Cadet
Academy, sponsored by HEB Supermarket of
Midland, will begin Thursday, July 6, 2006,
at the international headquarters of the
Commemorative Air Force at Midland
International Airport... |
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| May 15,2006 |
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CAF Expands Organization's Focus |
| Midland, Texas
(Dec. 12, 2005) - For almost 50 years, the
Commemorative Air Force's mission has been
to preserve and fly World War II vintage
aircraft in tribute to the men and women who
flew, maintained or built these planes
during World War II. However, in October
2005, the membership voted by a margin of
91.97 percent to expand the... |
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| May 15,2006 |
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MYSTERY SOLVED - AAHM LEARNS HISTORY |
| Midland, Texas
(Nov. 28, 2005) - A mystery for more than
four decades at the American Airpower
Heritage Museum, located at CAF Headquarters
in Midland, Texas, has been solved. In the
mid-1960s, a number of World War II bombers
were being scrapped. The owner of the scrap
yard salvaged the paintings on the noses of
many of these bombers. These panels, dubbed
Nose Art? by the American Airpower Heritage
Museum... |
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| January 9,2006 |
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Work Begins on CAF Ground Transportation
Vehicles Museum |
| Midland, Texas
(Jan. 9, 2006) - The earth is moving at the
Commemorative Air Force, as foundation work
has begun on the new World War II Ground
Transportation Vehicles Museum, located at
CAF Headquarters in Midland, Texas. The
museum is the result of a $2.35 million
Texas Department of Transportation grant to
construct and establish a unique
transportation museum and historic aircraft
display... |
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| December 12,2005 |
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CAF Expands Organization's Focus |
| Midland, Texas
(Dec. 12, 2005) - For almost 50 years, the
Commemorative Air Force's mission has been
to preserve and fly World War II vintage
aircraft in tribute to the men and women who
flew, maintained or built these planes
during World War II. However, in October
2005, the membership voted by a margin of
91.97 percent to expand the organization's
focus to include combat aircraft flown by
all branches of the U.S. military during... |
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| November 28,2005 |
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Mystery Solved - AAHM Learns History of
Mystery Nose Art? Panel |
| Midland, Texas
(Nov. 28, 2005) - A mystery for more than
four decades at the American Airpower
Heritage Museum, located at CAF Headquarters
in Midland, Texas, has been solved. In the
mid-1960s, a number of World War II bombers
were being scrapped. The owner of the scrap
yard salvaged the paintings on the noses of
many of these bombers. These panels, dubbed
Nose Art? by the American Airpower Heritage
Museum... |
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| November 22,2005 |
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American Airpower Heritage Museum Earns
Reaccreditation |
| Midland, Texas
(Nov. 22, 2005) - The American Airpower
Heritage Museum, located at Commemorative
Air Force headquarters in Midland, Texas,
has again achieved the highest recognition
for a museum ? accreditation by the American
Association of Museums (AAM). Initially
accredited in 1997, the museum must undergo
a subsequent review at least every 10 years
to maintain accredited status. |
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| September 8,2005 |
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Commemorative Air Force Flies Supplies into
Louisiana for Hurricane Victims |
| Midland, Texas
(Sept. 8, 2005) - Mirroring the humanitarian
efforts of the Berlin Airlift in 1948, three
vintage World War II era planes owned by the
Commemorative Air Force (CAF) joined the
effort to get supplies into areas of
Louisiana ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. On
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005, a C-47 cargo
plane, an R4D (Navy version of a C-47) and
an A-26 landed at Austin-Bergstrom
International Airport to begin loading
supplies. The R4D and C-47 were military
transports during World War II |
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