Gallery Update: 2014 Legacy Air Show Recap

This year, I started out my air show season (and got the "air show buzz!") a little earlier than usual with the Legacy Air Show hosted by the Legacy Flight Museum! For a small town with a small airport, it was a really great event full of great line-ups and non-stop action. I don't think I need to say much more other than provide the links and some preview pictures...

Legacy Air Show 2014 - Flight Line

Legacy Air Show 2014 - Performances

Legacy Air Show 2014 - Static Display

Preview:

The museum's Grumman S2F-1 Tracker (N8115M) presented the American Flag during opening ceremonies.

Kent Pietch did his incredible routines, including landing and taking-off from a moving pick-up truck platform in the Interstate S-1A Cadet (NC37361).

Gary Rower in his Stearman PT-18 (N212PC) during a photo pass. He flies his Stearman like a Pitts!

I FINALLY got to see the Bell P-63 King Cobra (NL163FS) fly! At the controls is John Bagley during a photo pass.

Unfortunately, we had an incident with the P-63 during the routine when part of the canopy imploded, cutting this performance short:

Here's the P-63 making an emergency landing. John Bagley did a great job! Notice the hole in the rear section of the canopy.

Here's a double-Beechcraft routine:

The museum's Beechcraft D17S Staggerwing (N217SD) during a pass.

Twin-Beechcraft D18S (N90552) during a pass.

World War II Trainers:

The museum's North American SNJ-3 (T-6) Texan (N676JD) during a photo pass.

The museum's Boeing B75N1 Stearman (N49259) landing after the routine.

North American SNJ-5 (T-6) Texan nicknamed Lil' Ashlee (N6900C) taking-off.

Aerobatics:

MX Aircraft MXS (N545EA) belonging to Brad Wursten of Power Addiction Airshows.

A Czechoslovakian-manufactured Moravan Zlín Z-50LS (N250LS) belonging to Dave Erickson of Erickson Air Shows.

Aviat Pitts S-2B Special (N14LP).

Interavia E-3 (N4413N).

Buck Roetman's brand-new Pitts S-2S Special (N99MF), of Wild Horse Aviation.

Danny Sorensen's custom-built Sorensen BF9-2 'Unfinished Business' (N81973), of Golden Age Airshows.

The three P-51D Mustangs:

It was great to see this P-51 again! 'Section Eight' is a D-model (N2869D) belonging to Driscoll Aviation.

Because the air show ran ahead of schedule due to the incident with the P-63 King Cobra, John Bagley took the 'Mormon Mustang' (N551BJ) up for an unscheduled performance; here he his doing a photo pass.

Lee Lauderback of Stallion 51 once again flies 'Ole Yeller' (N51RH).

One of my favorite photos I snapped out of this air show has to be this one. From left to right: Section Eight, Mormon Mustang, and Ole Yeller in a three-ship formation. To close out the show this year, these three Mustangs did the missing-man formation fly-over in memory of the late USAF Col. Ronald "Jack" Layton, one of the first test pilots of the Lockheed A-12 and a major contributor to the Legacy Flight Museum. The museum has many of Layton's memorabilia on display in a room called the "Blackbird Room."

This has been a unique opportunity and a great privilege to have been able to work at this air show while volunteering at the Legacy Flight Museum. This event allowed me the opportunity to go behind the scenes on what it actually takes to get an air show put together and again, for a small town with a tiny airport, I'd say we put on a pretty good show!