Photo Credit: Patrick Albright, Ft Benning Public Affairs Office via D-Day Squadron
- Waterbury-Oxford Airport, CT (KOXC)
- Suggested $10 donation per person. It will be paid to the volunteers who will be stationed at various airport access points and in the parking areas( Maps will be available soon).
- Aircraft will be available for viewing, but likely not for tours as this is a working week for the crews.
- The hours are 9:00 – 5:30. Access to the aircraft before and after those time will be prohibited because we won’t have ramp security in place.
Photo Credit: Patrick Albright, Ft Benning Public Affairs Office via D-Day Squadron
- SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
- 13-14 May
- D-day Squadron C-47 aircraft assemble at Oxford, CT Airport (KOXC) for pre-crossing briefings, survival raft training, formation training flights and media flights.
- 15 May (Wednesday)
- 11:00 – 2:45 p.m. D-day Squadron fly-out to KBDL (Hartford, CT) and New England Air Museum for lunch.
- 16 May (Thursday)
- 8:30 a.m. Official press welcome
- 9:00 a.m. Press conference. (Members of the media can register HERE)
- 10:00 a.m. Individual crew interviews
- 11:00 a.m. Media flight(s)
- Afternoon: crew training and formation training flights
Photo Credit: Via D-Day Squadron Media Kit
- 17 May (Friday)
- All day: Crew training and formation practice flights.
- 5:30 p.m. D-day Squadron group photo (location TBD)
- 6:00 p.m. Official D-day Squadron Kick-Off Dinner and Celebration, Oxford, CT Airport (KOXC) Reservations required: jonh@tunisonfoundation.org
Photo Credit: Patrick Albright, Ft Benning Public Affairs Office via D-Day Squadron
- 18 May (Saturday)
- 0500 – 0700: Photography Workshop: Sunrise
- Hudson River and Statue of Liberty Flyover: Lead Aircraft: Placid Lassie.
- 0800: Flight Briefing
- 1000: Start Engines
- 1030-1100: Launch and assemble over OXC ( Elephant Walk)
- Route of flight: direct south from OXC, westbound along Long Island Sound, overhead LaGuardia and south along East River, northbound turn around Statue of Liberty and northbound along Hudson River.
- Noon: Recovery at KOXC and Photography workshop
- 0930: Arrival of Air Station Cape Cod HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft, to be on static display for public viewing until 4:00 p.m.
- 1830 – 2030: Photography Workshop: Sunset (with reenactors)
- 19 May (Sunday)
- 0600: D-day Squadron Crew Weather Briefing
- 0700: D-day Squadron Departs for PQI and Goose Bay, Canada: Lead Aircraft: Placid Lassie.
- Photography workshop: Departure