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New Mexico Wing Of CAF Set To Close

Local Leadership Cites Disagreements With National Organization

The New Mexico Wing of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) located in Hobbs, NM has decided to suspend its operation citing disagreements with the organization's national leadership.

The closing came to our attention through a letter posted on the Lee Bottom Flying Field blog "NORDO News." In the letter, dated January 24, New Mexico Wing representative Diane Fenner writes to the national organization that "it really boils down to one action taken by the current regime, and that was kicking our duly elected general staff members, Floyd Houdashell and Graham Robertson, off the general staff for casting 2 [dissenting] votes in a staff decision."

She also cited what she describes as "hideous treatment of the CAF’s shining star, our world class, accredited, Smithsonian-equal Museum, rendered to a shell of a building full of artifacts for profit by removing its founder, its board, its employees, and all who viewed the museum with the honor it deserved."

Fenner said that the Wing's current members would not be paying dues to the national organization "as a display of the only way they know to make their statement of disgust." She said it was "the end of a great Wing."

FMI: Read the Letter

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