Aeroshell Aerobatic Team

The Aeroshell Aerobatic Team has been the best civilian formation team for many years. The team has been performing air shows for over twenty years. Flying the AT-6 Texan, you will see why beginning in 1938 the military used the AT-6 to train future pilots of the P-51 Mustang, F4U Cosair, P-40 Warhawk and others.

The Aeroshell team puts the Texan through several tight formation and aerobatic maneuvers to show off this aircraft's grace and beauty.

MIG-21

Come see a MIG 21 race across the skies of Winston-Salem this September.

William Ward is coming to town in his MIG 21 to push the speed of sound! Come see 700 MPH!!! Will Ward is a 14,000 hour Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) and currently the Captain of an Airbus A-320. Will has been flying for 24 years and graduated from the University of North Dakota Aviation Program. While at UND Will lead the UND Flying Team to first place finishes in regional and national competitions. He also received the Jeppeson Outstanding Team Member Award.

He has flown 60 different aircraft from the Sukhoi29, A-26, F104, T-33, MIG 15, MIG 21, MD 80 series and many more. The Russian produced MIG 21 is a rare bird in the states and this will be the very first appearance of a MIG 21 at a North Carolina Air Show.

Cobra Demonstration Team

The US Army Sky Soldiers are from the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation in Atlanta, GA The Sky Soldiers is an all volunteer group of retired military veterans who fly recently retried helicopters from the US Army to perform their maneuvers.

Their machine of choice is the AH-1 Cobra.

It's been said speed and noise are what attract people to air shows. The US Army Sky Soldiers are stealing the spotlight from the jet fighters.

Tora Tora Tora Bomb Squad

"Tora! Tora! Tora! Bomb Squad" is well known for the "Wall of Fire".

In March of 2009, a group from the Tora Bomb Squad teamed up with a group of Marines at the MCAS in Yuma Arizona.

After over 10 hours of work, and months of planning, The Tora Bomb Squad shattered the 6,400 foot Wall Of Fire world record with a 10,178.3 foot wall of fire.

Third Strike Wing Walking

Team RV

Team RV is comprised of 8 to 12 RV-6 homebuilt aircraft. These planes are capable of pulling up to six g's and 200mph.

The team is made up of both civilian and military pilots.

With this combination and aircraft performance, Team RV show off the dynamic maneuvers of this homebuilt aerobatic machine.

Indy Boys Jet Truck and Outhouse

When its time to GO its time to GO! Paul Strender pours on the flames to the worlds fastest outhouse. One of the world's most recognizable JET POWERED vehicles, you will be amazed that his 6'5" port-a-john will reach speeds exceeding 70mph.

The "RAMJET" JET POWERED Dodge truck is one of the most requested jet trucks on the airshow circuit today. With a Pratt & Whitney Jet engine producing 10,000 Horse Power, this truck will be a blur at nearly 400mph.

Red Eagle Air Sports

Providing a singular blend of low-level precision formation and solo aerobatics with fascinating transitions and head-on passes, Red Eagle Air Sports is nationally known for its eye-popping, spectacular performances.

Prepare to witness inverted flat spins, inside and outside loops, multiple snap rolls, tail slides, plus our signature maneuvers: the Torqued Eagle, Topcoat This, the Squirrel Cage, The Farvel Loop and the Tuck-Under Break – a distinctive dual act that will make you want more.

P-51 Mustang

101st Airborne Screaming Eagles

Along with the 82nd Airborne, the Screaming Eagles are the most storied paratrooper division in the world. Their greatest missions included dropping behind the beaches at Normandy in 1944 and then taking the brunt of Nazi Germany's last gasp at the Battle of the Bulge.

Those great victories cost a staggering 10,000 casualties, but in so sacrificing, they lived up to Major General William C. Lee, their first commander's, words when he told his new unit that the 101st had "no history but had a rendezvous with destiny."

DC-3 Carolina Aviation Museum

Who doesn't love the wonderful DC-3? For over seventy years, now, the "Gooney Bird", or "Dakota" has carried millions of passengers billions of miles, and tons of cargo around the world many times, while at the same time capturing the hearts of those who love the nostalgia of the Golden Age of aviation, the 1930s. Come and see the first airplane to make profitable commerical aviation possible. Was it really designed on the back of a napkin?

C-123 Ponderous Polly

Over the years designers have tried to convert gliders to powered aircraft, but the results are almost always disappointing. The Messerschmitt 323 Gigant comes to mind. Yet the C-123 Provider, one of the USAF's lesser known cargo ships , is the exception. Conceived as a heavy glider in the 1950s, it soon took on engines and became a very useful hauler. In Vietnam it was largely responsible for breaking the three month siege at Khe Sanh in 1968. Before that, it was the primary distributor of Agent Orange in 'Nam, but later became a workhorse for humanitarian missions throughout the world from the 1960s through the 1980s, including countless Coast Guard SAR missions

C-47 Barry Avent

The C-47 flew in all theaters of operation during WWII and helped win the war. One of the greatest photographs of WWII shows men with mohawks on their heads, Tommy guns on their backs, and warpaint streaking their faces. They were paratroopers from the 101st Screaming Eagles and behind them awaited the C-47s that would transport them through the dark of night to Occupied Europe and their rendezvous with destiny in the early hours of June 6, 1944. As you watch the C-47 fly at the show, imagine a dark night in France six decades ago as twenty teenagers prepare to jump into the fearful unknown to save the free world. They did, and you should never forget.

L-39 Albatros

At the end of the Cold War what was the well-dressed Eastern Bloc trainee pilot flying? None other than the L-39 Albatros, one of the very first turbofan-powered trainers produced.

The Albatros was built in what is now the Czech Republic and is currently one of the hottest aircraft in the burgeoning private warbird jet world.

Come and see a bit of Soviet technology that is now in friendly hands!

T-28 Trojan

At the end of WWII, the Pentagon asked North American to design the next generation replacement for the SNJ / T6 and they told them to “Super-size it!”

The mighty Trojan is a beast of bird with a wing span the size of a dive-bomber, and an engine hefty enough to lug 1,800 lbs of iron bombs through the sky, something it did routinely during the early days of the Vietnam War, and also during many other smaller third-world conflicts. Yes, it trained thousands of mostly US Navy pilots, but it is a true combat veteran, too.

T-6 Texan

The sound of the redoubtable T-6 trainer is unforgetable to those of "the greatest generation"!

You too can hear what thousands upon thousands of allied fliers during WWII heard as they learned to fly tail-draggers with big radials.

T-34 Mentor

The original T-34 was designed to train Navy/Marine pilots in the early 1950s.

Unlike its predecessors, this single-engined Beech had tricycle landing gear. Thousands of pilots who saw action in the Korean, and Vietnam wars flew in 34s.

Years later, the airframe saw continued life when a Pratt & Whitney turboprop was grafted onto the front. Be sure to compare this Beech to its Pilatus look-a-like which will also be at the show.

L-19 Birdog

Some of the bravest pilots during the Korean and Vietnam Wars were those who flew low and slow in the Cessna Bird Dog, a four seat piston engine airplane based on the civilian 170.

How would you like to fly a couple hundred feet above Charlie in the Mekong with dozens of AK-47s firing your way?

Brave men did. Honor them by inspecting a piece of poignant military history.

Focke Wolf 149D

Achtung! When the Luftwaffe rose from the ashes of WWII in the 1950s it did so with this sharp looking trainer built by the 'volks' who had built the fearsome Focke-Wulf 190 fighter.

With a heritage like that you can't expect anything less than sheer excitement!

Boeing Stearman

Probably the most famous biplane ever produced, besides Snoopy’s Sopwith Camel! Stearmans are everywhere, and at nearly all airshows. Ten thousand were produced by Boeing, but the design really stems from the drafting table of Lloyd Stearman, a Wichita, Kansas builder, who had to sell out during the tough times of the Great Depression.

Before he sold, he penned what would be his everlasting memorial in the shape of WWII’s most important primary trainer, the PT-17 Kaydet.

P-3 Pilatus

The Swiss make more than chocolate, watches, and cough drops! The Pilatus P-3 series aircraft is an all metal, piston engine, tandem two seat, high performance military trainer with retractable landing gear.

Can you tell this difference between this Alpine import and the Beech T-34 trainer?

L-17 Navion

Sometime between designing the P-51 Mustang, and the Space Shuttle, the engineers at North American, later Rockwell International, designed the hot-rod Navion for the weekend warriors of the National Guard.

How would you like to take a Sunday spin in the Mustang's younger brother?

Dehavilland Chipmunk

Though a product of a famous British design firm, the “Chippie” was really designed in Canada by a Polish engineer! Despite its distinctively mixed heritage, the Chipmunk continued the proud tradition of de Havilland aircraft in that it is both graceful, and rugged, at the same time.

It was meant to be a primary trainer, though oddly enough it retained a tail-wheel at a time when nearly all military aircraft were going to tri-cycle gear. Did you know the film The Great Waldo Pepper featured a highly modified Chipmunk?

F-22 Raptor - Requested

More coming soon!

MV-22 Osprey - Requested

More coming soon!

P-3 Orion - Requested

B-1 Bomber - Requested

B-2 Stealth Bomber - Requested

F-16 Fighting Falcon - Requested

F-15 Fly-bys* - Requested

The enemies of the US Air Force just don't stand a chance when the F-15 shows up for a fight, and that's why, over the past twenty-five years, most of the Eagle's opponents have chosen to run, or stay on the tarmac.

Those that didn't, paid the ultimate price.

These birds aren't new anymore, but they sure are pretty, and a joy to see fly. Witness a proud Eagle take wing.

F-18 Fly-Bys - Requested

The orignal concept of the F-18 was that it would be a smaller, lighter replacement for the Phantom, the workhorse of the Vietnam War.

Well, something happened along the way, like maybe design engineer steroids... and the F/A-18 became one brute of a beast!

How does something this heavy fly so fast, deliver a bomber-load of hurt on Republican Guards heads, and then slam onto a carrier without smashing through to the engine room? It's a brilliant design, that's how.

A-10 Fly-Bys - Requested

This is an airplane that they just can't kill. Designed originally to smash Russian tanks on the Fulda Gap in Germany in event of the Cold War heating up, the Thunderbolt II finally saw combat in Iraq and Kuwait in the early 90s. It surpassed expectations as a mauler of mechanized machinery, but also was able to take punishment and bring its pilots home. The enemy had a hard time killing this unusually designed ground attacker, but that didn't stop some in Washington from giving it a shot. As the service life of these airframes came to an end, it was originally planned to scrap the fleet. Instead, cooler heads prevailed and the T-II will live on for the forseeable future.

C-17 Globemaster III - Requested

Does all that metal really get airborne? Come and see for yourself!

C-130 Hercules - Requested

AH-64 Apache - Requested

The Apache represents one of the front-line aircraft that sees action on a daily basis in America's War On Terror.

Loaded with the most modern target acquisition avionics, this rotary descendent of the Huey delivers a knock-out punch with every round of 30mm (that's one and one-quarter inches!) shell it spits out, not to mention its on-board Hellfire missile.

Being a terrorist isn't much fun when the Apache acquires your thermal image.

UH-60 Blackhawk - Requested

Scheduled To Appear

Subject To Change

PRE-SHOW ACTIVITIES Start At 11:30

Salute To Local - Emergency Response Personnel
RC Models
PARADE OF PLANES
Modified Race Cars

Performers 12:30 - 4:00

Aeroshell Aerobatic Team
MIG - 21
Cobra Demonstration Team
Tora Tora Tora Bomb Squad
INDY BOYS JET TRUCK 375 MPH
Third Strike Wing Walking
Red Eagle Air Sports
Matt Chapman
P-51 Mustang
101st Airborne Screaming Eagles
DC-3 Carolina Aviation Museum
C-123 Ponderous Polly
C-47 - Barry Avent
L-39 Albatrose
T-28 Trojan
T-6 Texan
A-26 Intruder
B-25 Mitchell
T-34 Mentor
L-19 Birdog
Focke Wolf 149D
Boeing Stearman
P-3 Pilatus
L-17 Navion
Dehavilland Chipmunk