Warbirds Over the Beach Show 2010

The Military Aviation Museum will host the second annual weekend event to be held  at the Virginia Beach Airport.  The event will be open to the general public and will be held the weekend of May 22-23 on Saturday and Sunday.

May 22 - 23, Saturday & Sunday
Time: Gates open at 8:30 AM each day and airplanes will begin flying at 1:00 PM each afternoon.
Plenty of on and off-site parking.
Bring your beach chairs and camera.

Dinner: Saturday afternoon steak dinner at 4:00 PM
Music: 7:00 PM dance band

Entertainers who will be performing at the airshow:

1. The American Belles (Andrew Sisters Tribute Show)
   
   
2. Frank Sings Frank
   
   
3. Hampton Roads Metro Band
   
   
4. Silver Tappers
   
   
5. Super Band
   
   
6. Theresa Eaman (Jazz Diva from Idaho Falls)
   
   
7. Ultimate Abbott and Costello Tribute Show
   
   

Ticket prices -- > Ticket information here

Aircraft start flying @ 1PM
Buy Steak dinners in advance.
Swing band starts @ 7PM

During the airshow weekend, we have made arrangements for three pilots to bring in their authentic North American AT-6 military trainers and a PT-19 primary trainer. These are the same airplanes that were used to train Army Air Corps and Navy pilots in the Second World War. From the primary trainers like the Stearman bi-plane and the Fairchild PT-19 Cornell trainer, they would move on to these types of Advanced Trainers and learn aerobatics and combat maneuvers. From this, young pilots would transition to either the Corsairs or Mustangs before being shipped overseas.

This is your opportunity to experience what this was really like. These aircraft are dual controlled with full intercom systems. You may control and fly the airplane yourself with the assistance of the instructor pilot or just sit back and relax while taking in the beautiful seaside panorama.

• AT-6 plane - For more information on such rides, contact either AT-6 plane at www.PlaneView.aero/rides.htm or www.TexanFlight.com or call (757) 647-8127.
  
  
• PT-19 plane - For the primary PT-19 contact www.BayAviationOnline.com or call
  (804) 436-2977.

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Due to presence of fueled aircraft on the field, smoking will be limited to designated areas only!
Tickets available from the website via PayPal or at the Museum gift shop.

Re-enactors will begin arriving for set-up on Friday afternoon and their encampments will be situated alongside our mile long turf runway.  Come by early osn Saturday and learn about their individual units, past history, military gear, and see them dressed in their uniforms.  It will be like stepping back in time to imagine what these young men would have encountered in the combat field, so far away from their homes. 

The action and flying begins Saturday morning with the smell of bacon in the air.   Numerous vendors will be in attendance selling trinkets and memorabilia from the era of both world wars.  Food vendors will be serving their snacks, meals, and drinks. Come dressed in your grandparent's uniforms or outfits.  It does not take a lot to get into the swing of things.

During the day, be entertained by Theresa Eamon who sings all the popular torch songs of the 1940’s, laugh with Abbott and Costello as performed by their impersonators doing their “Who’s on First” routines. Sing along with the Andrew Sisters, who are done by the American Belles from New York City.  As you wander among the encampments, you will feel that you are truly back in time, to an era that is fast being forgotten.  Speak with many of the veteran pilots in attendance that experienced this all first hand and they will tell you what it was really like.  Chat with a Mustang pilot that was only a teenager when he first left home to go overseas to fight in the distant war or another pilot, already as an old man in his mid 20’s flying Navy fighters in the South Pacific.  Many will have their own books to offer you or photos from so many years ago, that they will autograph for you. 

At 1PM on Saturday, the airplanes will roar to life and begin to taxi down the runway in individual groups.  They will race across the grass field to their take off positions, climb overhead, and swoop down low in view of your camera.  There will be fighters, bombers, trainers, sea planes, and more fighters.  All operational and flying for you to experience. 

At the end of the day on Saturday, join us for a steak barbecue dinner with Pungo grown vegetables and strawberry treats for dessert.  As the sun begins to set, the Glenn Miller swing band will tune up their instruments and begin the evening hangar dance.  You can just sit back to enjoy the music or join the GI’s jitterbugging to the lead singers performing those old and catchy tunes that brought back memories of our young servicemen stationed overseas.

The music will last long into the night, but not too late, in order to allow you to get up at reveille and start all over again the next day.  Sunday church services will be done in the encampment, but you will have to get there early.  On Sunday, it will all be done again, but we will be out of steak and the band will have gone home.  However, the veterans and musical troops will all repeat their multiple performances, with the air show again repeating at one o’clock.  The re-enactors will break camp at four and we will wave you out, on your way back home.

Pilots invited to arrive by single engine piston aircraft except during 1 to 3:00 PM Saturday and Sunday when the airport is closed for warbird flight demonstrations.