Keith Breazeal Video Productions

The 30th Annual West Coast Antique Fly-In and Airshow in Watsonville, California was a fantastic gathering of vintage aircraft on the ground and in the air. Antique aircraft, going back to 1910, took to the skies for the annual display put on by the Northern California Antique Airplane Association and the California Antique Aircraft Museum. Fun contests by these aircraft included flour bombing and spot landings. World War II filled the sky with fly-bys and pyrotechnic enhanced bombing runs. Civilian aerobatic performers wowed the crowd with amazing high G maneuvers. Amelia Reid, trainer of many aerobatic pilots, demonstrated her knowledge of aerobatics by flying a Cessna Aerobat through maneuvers not many pilots would even think of doing in the Aerobat.
Among the aircraft in the air: P-51's, B-17, B-24, B-25, A-26, C-47, and the P-47. These aircraft participated in a WW II D-Day re-enactment that included some really great fly-bys. Antique aircraft are too numerous to mention, but just about everything flyable was in the air. The aerobatic flying entertainment included a wide variety of aircraft that included Eddie Andreini/Yak-52, Chris Ferguson/Pitts, Ken Wieland/Christen Eagle II, Steve Stavrakakis/Zlin-50LA, Jim Cheatham/R-22, Wanda Collins/Pitts S-2B, John Piggott/Su-29, Delmar Benjamin/Gee Bee R-2, and John Culver/AT-6.