Aviation buffs can climb into the seats of historic war planes, including the Tico Belle, as Valiant Air Command hosts Open Cockpit Day on March 15.

A special raffle will offer a 15-minute flight, wind-in-your-hair, open cockpit, no less, with the museum’s operations director aboard his PT-17 Stearman biplane. Regular museum admission ...

Everybody’s Favorite Trainer Starting in 1934, the same year it was acquired by Boeing, the Stearman Aircraft Company of Wichita began building a sturdy biplane trainer. By the end of the war ...