Category: Air Shows

Feb 27

Historic Wendover Air Show

NvToDoAdminPosted in Air Shows, September, West Wendover

The Historic Wendover Airfield will be hosting our 2019 Air Show on Saturday September 28, 2019. Please join us in Wendover, Utah for an enjoyable day of aviation and military history. On display will be both modern and vintage aircraft, military displays, Utah Military Vehicle Club and the Arizona Ground Crew WWII Living Historians. Come […]

Feb 27

Historic Wendover Airfield

NvToDoAdminPosted in Air Shows, Fund Raising, Historical Buildings, Historical Locations, History, History & Historical, History Reenactment, West Wendover

Wendover Field was conceived during the late 1930s, and Congress appropriated funds in 1940 for the acquisition of land for bombing and gunnery ranges. Wendover was selected because of the Great Salt Lake desert with its shimmering salt flats and other vast uninhabited terrain. In 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt had established the “Manhattan Engineer […]