September 22, 2012

Airport Open House

The Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Open House and Fun Day Saturday, September 22.

Doris Dumey floats towards the ground during a skydiving exhibition at at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Open House and Fun Day Saturday, September 22. Dumey has been skydiving for 11 years and has 1,022 jumps to her credit.

Marshall Roll-Huston, 5, checks out the cockpit of a Missouri Army National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Open House and Fun Day Saturday, September 22.

A Stearman biplane on display at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Open House and Fun Day Saturday, September 22.

A Douglas DC-3 on display at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Open House and Fun Day Saturday, September 22. The airliner entered service in 1936 and over 16,000 were made, some of which are still in service today.

Mike Wahlers' 60 size Spitfire radio controlled plane flies over the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Open House and Fun Day Saturday, September 22. Wahlers is the vice president of the Southeast Missouri Modelers Association which flew a variety of radio controlled aircraft at the event.

Frasca drops a flour bomb out of a Southern Illinois University Aviation Cessna 172 being flown by Bryan Weis at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Open House and Fun Day Saturday, September 22. Frasca and Weis are both students at SIU majoring in Aviation Management/Flight.

Craig Dumey gathers up his parachute after a skydiving exhibition at at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Open House and Fun Day Saturday, September 22. Dumey has been skydiving for 14 years and has 1,620 jumps to his credit.

Michael Burckhardt, 4, checks out the cockpit of a Missouri Army National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Open House and Fun Day Saturday, September 22.

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