{"id":471327,"date":"2026-09-21T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471327\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:35:07","slug":"kc-honor-flight-54-trip-canceled-veterans-guardians-to-get-priority-for-april-2027-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471327\/","title":{"rendered":"KC Honor Flight 54 trip canceled; veterans &#038; guardians to get priority for April 2027 trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HonorFlightKernCounty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kern County Honor Flight 54<\/a> announced that it has canceled their trip.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans and their guardians were at Meadows Field Monday morning and were on the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Kern County Honor Flight told Eyewitness News that the airport did not have the required piece called a \u201ctowbar.\u201d A spokesperson said they were going to wait hours for one to come from Fresno, which did not come.<\/p>\n<p>By then, the pilots timed out and would need new pilots. Overall, those on board would not reach the hotel until early morning.<\/p>\n<p>Kern County Honor Flight said veterans and guardians on the trip will have priority for April 2027. The exact dates will be announced at another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County Honor Flight 54 announced that it has canceled their trip. Veterans and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-471327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471327","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=471327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}