{"id":10809,"date":"2025-10-18T02:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/10809\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T02:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:56:07","slug":"festival-of-flight-brings-historic-planes-and-other-aircraft-to-long-beach-airport-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/10809\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Flight brings historic planes and other aircraft to Long Beach Airport \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People will be able to admire several notable planes up close at Long Beach Airport\u2019s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/2024\/10\/19\/thousands-attend-long-beach-airports-2024-festival-of-flight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Festival of Flight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Set to take place Oct. 25, the free event is expected to attract about 15,000 fans of aviation, who will be able to check out more than two dozen aircraft on static display.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, the lineup of aircraft is expected to include the C-53 \u201cD-Day Doll,\u201d which participated in the D-Day invasion; a KC-46 Pegasus, an air-to-air military refueling aircraft; and the VX-31 Search and Rescue \u201cDust Devils,\u201d a U.S. Navy helicopter and its crew who help downed aircraft, lost hikers or missing persons on land and sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalking the airfield and seeing these planes up close is an experience like no other,\u201d said Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The festival includes children\u2019s activities, food and beer trucks, and musical performances.<\/p>\n<p>Festival of Flight was launched in 2013 in celebration of the airport\u2019s 90th anniversary with the aim of raising awareness about California\u2019s oldest municipally owned airport, which marked its 100th anniversary in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Festival of Flight<\/p>\n<p>When: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 25<\/p>\n<p>Where: Long Beach Airport, 3590 East Wardlow Road<\/p>\n<p>Cost: Free to attend<\/p>\n<p>Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/lgb\/community-information\/festival-of-flight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">longbeach.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People will be able to admire several notable planes up close at Long Beach Airport\u2019s annual Festival of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,131,133,132,137,420],"class_list":{"0":"post-10809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-long-beach","10":"tag-long-beach-headlines","11":"tag-long-beach-news","12":"tag-los-angeles-county","13":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}