PENSACOLA — The 2015 Veterans Flight in July will honor World War II vets before the Pensacola Beach Air Show.
Pensacola attorney and pilot Roy Kinsey, along with Stearman Flight, a national formation training organization, has organized a July 10-11 fly-over featuring eight to 10 WWII veteran pilots who received their primary flight training in Stearman aircrafts. The Stearmans will fly the veteran pilots above Pensacola Beach starting at 9 a.m. both days. The second flights will take off at 9:45 a.m.
Flights will be staged from Pensacola Aviation Center, located on Jerry Maygarden Drive on the east side of Pensacola International Airport.
Volunteer Stearman pilots are coming from as far away as Atlanta, Ga., Nashville, Tenn. and Starkville, Miss. for the event.
Among more than 20 veteran pilots making the nostalgic flights are former Navy pilots Dick Pace, Cass Phillips and Frank Heule of Pensacola, along with Army Air Corps veterans John Beard, Mel Bryant and LeRoy Manor, who live in the Fort Walton Beach area.
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: Vintage military planes to carry veterans in Pensacola air show