History on full display is what you experienced on Saturday if you went to the annual aviation open house hosted by the Mississippi Wing of the Commemorative Air Force.
History on full display is what you experienced on Saturday if you went to the annual aviation open house hosted by the Mississippi Wing of the Commemorative Air Force.
MADISON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi’s biggest aviation and automotive event was held at the Madison Airport on Saturday. The Hangar Hangover showcases incredible show cars, different examples of aviation, and fully restored aircrafts from the World War II era. “We’ve got cars, we’ve got everything from Porsches and Ferraris, all the way down to old […]. Local Mississippi Breaking News Story from CBS 12 New WJTV, your Jackson, MS news leader
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The Commemorative Air Force’s Mississippi Wing recently received a generous donation in the form of a beautiful Stinson L-5G Sentinel, restored as as an Army Air Forces air ambulance. Nicknamed
Doctors Orders, this particular aircraft is reportedly a Mississippi native through-and-through, having originally been constructed at Stinson’s factory in Wayne, Mississippi.
As many readers will know, the L-5 is the military version of a civilian Stinson 105 Voyager. The U.S. Army Air Forces purchased six Voyagers for testing in 1941, designating them as YO-54s. Quantity orders for L-5 Sentinels began in 1942, with the USAAF eventually procuring 3,590 L-5s before war’s end, making it the service’s second most widely used liaison type.