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D-Day Doll Return’s to Riverside Hangar

**August 1, 2019 - Riverside, CA - **Join us and celebrate on August 5, 2019 at Noon Riverside Municipal Airport Terminal Building. The accomplishments of the Doll and her crew were Epic. Over the past 3 months our Doll, “From Riverside” was part of a larger group of 15 like aircraft from North America called the “75th D-Day Squadron”.

Below are the accomplishments that the Doll was part of every step of the way and much more.

  • 15 airplanes returned to Normandy, and various European commemorations
  • 6 D-Day veterans personally honored
  • 150,000 total miles flown by Squadron aircraft
  • 1,050 total flight hours by Squadron aircraft
  • 3,976 miles flown over water by Squadron aircraft
  • 8 weeks on the road for crews across 8 countries
  • 11 flight information regions covered by Squadron aircraft
  • 5,000 lbs. of Jelly Belly parachutes dropped during the 70th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift
  • Presidential fly over on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Normandy FR
  • Statue of Liberty and Manhattan fly over
  • 2.3 million people reached on Social Media
  • Events covered by 195 individual accredited media including CNN, NBC, NY Times, London Times 45 partners and major donors that helped to make every accomplishment a reality
  • Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport, Paris FR
  • EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh WI
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