“As the cost of fuel and parts keeps increasing, it is harder to get a mass gathering of these historic aircraft together. To see them all in a formation is going to be a rare and awesome sight to see. This warbird gathering has turned truly amazing in just the last thirty days as these aircraft have filed in electronically one by one. 

“Of course, my favorite is the C-47,” continued Rice, “which we operate but it will be an amazing experience to host and fly with all of these other rare and unique vintage warbirds. Topeka is an ideal location, both geographically, in terms of runway and ramp, and community support. Our entire network team is working hard to host this event here. As the President of the American Flight Museum, I can vouch that we are honored to hold “Gooney Bird” Slot Number 1 and park our bird on that ramp with all of our other close friends from the warbird community. We look forward to showing you all a great time,” commented President Rice earlier this week. 

In a media conference call earlier this week, American Flight Museum Vice President and event organizer Brooks Pettit also had this report: “As of this week, we are proud to report that the Grumman series slots are now full, as well as those for the Lockheed series. This is the first time that we know of that all of these unique and rare aircraft single, authentic copies from these individual manufacturers will be on the same ramp at the same time. You can see the aircraft listings and status on the front page of the gathering website. If you want to see a lot of world War II aircraft flying together every day, you will not want to miss this,” advised Vice President Pettit.