WWII Veteran Flys In Stearman on 95th

15D85B0F-5E5D-4BD0-BA2C-9DE68B581B82.jpeg Every year we have a group that brings a stearman to our airport and gives all the veterans a ride if they choose. If they can’t climb in they have a hoist to boot.

April 20, 2015 06:42 PM

Updated April 21, 2015 11:46 AM

More than 70 years after the Nazis shot him down, Chuck Walker took to the friendlier skies east of Turlock.

He and 11 fellow World War II veterans got rides Monday in a 1940s Boeing Stearman, courtesy of the Ageless Aviation Dreams Foundation. Each took off from Turlock Municipal Airport in the two-seat, open-cockpit plane for a flight of about 15 minutes, piloted by foundation president Darryl Fisher.

“At 94, I’ll probably not do it again, but I’d like to,” Walker said after landing. “God’s in charge, not me.”


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