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WWII B-29 Superfortress offers tours, flights in Monroe

WWII B-29 Superfortress offers tours, flights in Monroe AvFlight Monroe at the Monroe Regional Airport is hosting the History Restored Tour, now through Thursday. The tour features the B-29 Superfortress, known as Doc.   Doc, one of 1,644 B-29s built in Wichita, Kansas during World War II, served in various non-combat roles. In 1951, The plane got its name when it served as a radar calibration aircraft with the 4713th Radar Evaluation Squadron at Griffiss Air Force Base in New York. That squadron was also known as the Seven Dwarfs, each named after the characters from the Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, one of which is Doc. 

Fly on, tour a a B-29 Superfortress in Monroe

Easter tornadoes caused massive damage, but no injuries in northeast Louisiana

Last year, three tornadoes raced across Ouachita Parish, leaving homes demolished, trees uprooted and dozens of families displaced. Ouachita Parish Homeland Security Director Neal Brown said looking at the damage alone would make you think there must have been an unthinkable number of injuries, even some fatalities. But no injuries were reported in the area. On a normal Easter Sunday, people would be gathered at churches, eating at restaurants and celebrating the holiday with parties and egg hunts. No one ever wants to call COVID-19 a good thing, he said, but people being shut in their homes with food and not out traveling might have helped prevented catastrophic injuries and deaths, said Brown.

NELA school closures for Feb. 17 because of snow, ice with more in weather forecast

Airlines cancel Monroe Regional Airport flights due to winter weather

Update: Monroe Regional Airport is reopened The News-Star (Monroe) 2/20/2021 Special to USA Today Network, Monroe News-Star © Nicolas Galindo/The News-Star An employee with the Monroe Regional Airport walks past the closed passenger gate where Travel Security Administration employees screen passengers in Monroe, La. on Jan. 25. One flight was cancelled and two others were delayed in the early morning when local TSA agents did not show as the federal shutdown entered day 35. Saturday update: Monroe Regional Airport was approved to reopen Saturday afternoon, following days of ice and snow creating unsafe conditions. M Monday update: Monroe Regional Airport is closed until further notice due to severe winter weather, according to an announcement from the city.