The 4th of July Honor Flyover will take to the sky on Saturday, July 4 at 11 a.m. Warbirds will fly over Truckee and Tahoe communities to honor our nation’s independence and frontline workers during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
The planned “parade in the sky” of military aircraft will feature the D-Day Squadron whose commemorative flyover missions continue throughout the nation, the last one covering over four Southern California counties on Memorial Day. The squadron plans to fly six DC-3 (C-47s) historic warbirds over Truckee Tahoe communities as a special gift supported by the Truckee Tahoe Air Show and Truckee Airport District.
The flyover is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. and will cover Truckee Tahoe communities flying over Tahoe Forest Hospital, all four shores of Lake Tahoe, Barton Medical Center in South Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Tahoe City, Squaw Valley and back to Truckee. The mission stretching 130 miles is expected to finish by 12:15 p.m.
THE PLANES WILL NOT BE ON DISPLAY at the Truckee Tahoe Airport. Please do not come to the airport for viewing.
The lead aircraft for this mission is Gooney Bird Group Betsy’s Biscuit Bomber C-47, piloted by U.S. Navy veteran Sherman Smoot and Scott Stelzle. The progression will end with an Aeoranautica of Romania, IAR-823, Zlin “pulling up the rear.”
The flight path graphic is forthcoming and will publish on the Truckee Tahoe Air Show & Family Festival social media pages.
“Considering we had to make the decision to cancel the 2020 Air Show & Family Festival due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Airport District Board supported funding an honor flyover as a gift to our community to celebrate July 4th with a parade of planes in the sky,” noted Tim LoDolce, executive director, Truckee Tahoe Air Show.
The Truckee Tahoe Airport complies with Nevada and Placer County Health Department guidelines to not have large public gatherings at the airport. Please note that aircraft WILL NOT BE ON DISPLAY.
The Truckee Tahoe Air Show, which annually takes place in July, will return in July 2021.
Saturday Jul 4, 2020
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
Truckee
11 a.m. Take off and head over downtown Truckee above Donner Pass Road toward Tahoe Forest Hospital
11:04 a.m. West end of Donner Lake
11:06 a.m. Meadow Park off Donner Pass Road
11:07 a.m. Tahoe Donner
11:11 a.m. Prosser Lakeview Estates
11:14 a.m. Glenshire Devonshire
11:16 a.m. Truckee Regional Park
11:17 a.m. Ponderosa Palisades/Sierra Meadows/Lahontan/Martis Camp/Shaffer’s Mill
11:18 a.m. Flying above Hwy 267 up Brockway Summit to King’s Beach
North-West Shores
11:20 a.m. Heading counterclockwise around Lake Tahoe
- Carnelian Bay, Dollar Point, Tahoe City
11:25 a.m. Flying above State Route 89 to Homewood, Tahoma, Meeks Bay, Emerald Bay toward the South Lake Tahoe “wye”
South Lake Tahoe
11:32 a.m. Barton Hospital, above Highway 50 to the casino corridor to above State Route 28 along Lake Tahoe’s East Shore
East Shore
11:43 a.m. Sand Harbor Nevada State Park
11:45 a.m. Hyatt Regency Pier and Incline Village Hospital
11:47 a.m. Kings Beach
11:52 a.m. Flying above the North Shore to Tahoe City
11:53 a.m. Up Truckee River Canyon to Squaw Valley
Truckee
11:55 a.m. Proceed back to Truckee over SaveMart on State Route 89; heading east above Donner Pass Road
Approximate time of completion 12:15 p.m.
The skies of Truckee-Tahoe.
