WWII B-29 Superfortress offers tours, flights in Monroe
AvFlight Monroe at the Monroe Regional Airport is hosting the History Restored Tour, now through Thursday.
The tour features the B-29 Superfortress, known as Doc. Doc, one of 1,644 B-29s built in Wichita, Kansas during World War II, served in various non-combat roles. In 1951,
The plane got its name when it served as a radar calibration aircraft with the 4713th Radar Evaluation Squadron at Griffiss Air Force Base in New York. That squadron was also known as the Seven Dwarfs, each named after the characters from the Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, one of which is Doc.
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