Want to ride in a WWII-era plane over Rock Hill? This weekend is your chance
A WWII B-17 bomber will take to the skies over Rock Hill this weekend.
The B-17G Yankee Lady will take off Saturday and Sunday from the Rock Hill-York County Airport at 550 Airport Road in Rock Hill. Guests can take 25-minute rides for $525 per person. Airborne, passengers can move through the plan nose, flight deck, bomb bay, radio room and waist gunnery section.
Guests on the ground can tour the plane both days, time permitting. Adult tours are $8 and child tours $3.
Online reservations are available at yankeeairmuseum.org. Limited walk-up seats will be available. Registration is 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday. Flights are at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. Sunday.
Airport director Steven Gould said his group is excited to host the bomber.
“There are only 11 left in the world that can take to the skies,” Gould said. “It’s not often you get to provide our community with an opportunity of a lifetime, to experience a flight like our heroes did in the 30s and 40s.”
The B-17 Flying Fortress is a heavy four-engine bomber that flew daylight missions over Germany during the second world war. Yankee Lady is owned by the Yankee Air Museum. The nonprofit set up in 1981 is based in Michigan.
This story was originally published October 13, 2022 at 12:47 PM.
