B-17 fly over Saturday

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Keep your eyes on the skies Saturday morning and you might be lucky enough to see a B-17 Flying Fortress pass above Chatham-Kent.

Norm Ellickson, crew chief of “The Yankee Lady,” said the plane would pass over Chatham mid morning en route to another show.

Ellickson said he estimates the plane, which is based at Willow Run Airport in Michigan, may be here around 10:30 a.m. although the exact time is tentative.

It’s a sneak peak of the plane which will be landing in Chatham July 16 at the community’s first ever Flight Fest. To book a ticket for a 45 minute flight on the plane, call Brent DeNure at 519-809-2114.

More than 12,000 B-17s were produced, and the planes dropped 640,000 tons of bombs on Nazi-occupied sites during the Second World War, more than any other U.S. aircraft.

The B-17’s exploits were immortalized in the movie “The Memphis Belle,” one of the first U.S. bombers to complete 25 combat missions.

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