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April 06, 2015

Airborne 04.06.15: Gone West-Tuskegee's Leahr, AEA2015 LIVE!, 2015 Endeavor Awards

Also: Prince William, ANN Webcast Schedule, Indoor Skydiving, Elite Interface, Airbus C295W, NATA Honors Pistole, Candy Powered Rocket

John Leahr, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, passed away on Friday, March 27, at the age of 94. Leahr had been one of the famed group of Black pilots that flew fighter escort for bomber missions during World War II. He belonged to the 332nd Fighter Group, the Tuskegee Airmen, and flew bomber escort sorties in Europe. On April 8th through the 11th, ANN will be at the 2015 AEA convention from top to bottom…from beginning to end. We’ll provide daily reports on the Aero-News network website, and broadcast video reports on our daily Airborne Unlimited videocasts. We start things off on Wednesday, April 8 at 9:30 in the morning Eastern Time w

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