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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