Charleston’s Yeager Airport and the West Virginia Air National Guard’s 130th Airlift Wing celebrated their 70th anniversary with an air show on Sept. 30, 2017 and featured flying demonstrations, aircraft displays and tours, and rides aboard World War II-era aircraft. The air show included several examples of aircraft associated with the airport during its early years, including a Curtiss C-46 Commando transport plane — the first aircraft assigned to the West Virginia Air Guard’s 130th Airlift Wing — and an American Airlines DC-3, the first commercial aircraft to operate at Kanawha Airport during its 1947 debut. You should also note that the C-46 was the type of aircraft my father flew in WWII as part of the HUMP operations and this was the first time my sister had gotten to see one. She as the rest of my family was impressed.
