Geneseo, N.Y. — The 44th Annual Geneseo Airshow kicked off this weekend at the National Warplane Museum, marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in Japan Day with a “Battles of the Pacific” theme.
The event features a Pearl Harbor reenactment complete with pyrotechnics, a B-25 bomber formation reenacting the famous Doolittle Raid, and WWII C-47 flyovers.
Modern military aircraft, including the F/A-18F Super Hornet and F-35A Lightning II, are also making appearances.
“Geneseo is very unique from other airshows,” said AJ Bartucca, public relations director for the Geneseo Airshow at the National Warplane Museum. “We’re on a grass airstrip and one of the benefits of coming to Geneseo is you get a lot closer to these airplanes than you can at a lot of other airshows.”
A lineup of historic and modern aircraft will round out the weekend.
“At the end of the show, we’re having a mass flyover rally like they did at the end of the war in Tokyo Bay after the signing of the surrender,” Bartucca said.
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