Evansville Wartime Museum releases 2021 schedule
Evansville Wartime Museum to release 2021 schedule By 14 News Staff | April 19, 2021 at 7:02 AM CDT - Updated April 19 at 11:50 AM
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - The Evansville Wartime Museum released their 2021 schedule at a news conference Monday morning.
On Friday, May 7, there will be a Celebration of approval of House Bill 1197 that designates Evansville’s own P-47, Hoosier Spirit II, as the Indiana State Aircraft. The new design for Hoosier Spirit II will be revealed at this event. Attendees will include Indiana’s Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch and other local governmental officials.
On the last weekend of May, EWM will celebrate the fourth anniversary of its opening in 2017. Saturday May, 29, a local Evansville private pilots will be donating their time and planes to help raise funds for the Evansville Wartime Museum. Paid visitors to the museum will be able to ride in these planes for a donation of $75 to $100 per person.
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Indiana perhaps may get two new state symbols later this year.
Three days after the Indiana Senate voted to name popcorn grown in Indiana as the official state snack, the Indiana House agreed Thursday to revise the designation of Indiana s state aircraft.
Since 2015, the state aircraft has been all of the 6,670 World War II-era Republic Aviation P-47 Thunderbolts produced in Evansville between 1942 and 1945.
House Bill 1197 would change that to a single P-47 Thunderbolt, known as Hoosier Spirit II, completed two days before the United States and its allies achieved victory in Europe, and currently on display at the Evansville Wartime Museum.
P-47 Thunderbolt could be the official state aircraft in new House Bill
P-47 Thunderbolt could be the official state aircraft in new House Bill By 14 News Staff | January 12, 2021 at 2:50 PM CST - Updated January 12 at 5:47 PM
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Indiana Representative Wendy McNamara will be introducing House Bill 1197 requesting the P-47 Thunderbolt âHoosier Spirit 2â be designated as the official state aircraft of Indiana.
As you may remember, the thunderbolt âTarheel Halâ arrived at the Evansville Wartime Museum
this past October and is being formally renamed âHoosier Spirit Twoâ in honor of the first P-47 produced at the Republic Aviation plant in Evansville.