{"id":208166,"date":"2026-06-02T06:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208166\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:26:07","slug":"rare-aircraft-arrive-in-berks-county-ahead-of-wwii-weekend-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208166\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare aircraft arrive in Berks County ahead of WWII Weekend | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 Two of the rarest World War II warbirds arrived in Berks County on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the North American B-25 Mitchell touched down at Reading Regional Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The bombers will be on display during the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/maam.org\/wwii\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">35th Annual World War II Weekend,<\/a> which will take place Friday, June 5, through Sunday, June 7, at the Mid Atlantic Air Museum in Reading. The planes will also be available for rides.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers are expecting 80 aircraft this year, as well as military vehicles, reenactors, and World War II-era entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Two of the rarest World War II warbirds arrived in Berks County on Monday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[91501,91503,91502,128,130,129,53872,91505,91504],"class_list":["post-208166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-boeing-b-17-flying-fortress","tag-mid-atlantic-air-museum","tag-north-american-b-25-mitchell","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-regional-airport","tag-warbirds","tag-wwii-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}