EFI is taking it back to the 80’s! Please join us along with your family and friends for a totally awesome dinner and showing of the 80’s summer classsic, Top Gun! Come dressed in the decade – there will be prizes for best 80’s fashions! There will also be raffle prizes.

Carne asada BBQ dinner starts at 7pm, movie begins at 8pm. Tickets to this event are FREE for Gold Club members (limit one). For all others, tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for kids 6-12, free for kids 5 and under. This includes dinner, movie, popcorn and a raffle ticket.

Tickets will be available in the flight school office beginning Sunday, July 18th. (Your ticket will also serve as your raffle ticket at the end of the night). The movie will be shown in the hangar adjacent to the flight school. Please bring your own camping chairs if you’d like!

If you have any questions, please give us a call at (951) 304-9639, or email us at info@flyefi.com. This is going to be a fun ride into the danger zone, hope to see you there!

If you are on facebook, you  can view this event and add yourself to the guest list at: 

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140380492648113

By ERICA SHEN
Special to The Press-Enterprise

Two heavy bombers and a fighter airplane from World War II will be on display from Wednesday to Friday at French Valley Airport in Murrieta.

For 21 years, the Wings of Freedom Tour has traveled the nation to preserve WWII history. The tour visits an average of 110 cities in more than 35 states annually, according to a press release for the event.

“The tour gives people a better sense of what it must have been like during World War II and more appreciation for those who served in the air force,” said Hunter Chaney, director of marketing for the Collings Foundation, which organizes the event.

Three aircraft: the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Nine O Nine” heavy bomber; the Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Witchcraft” heavy bomber and the North American Aviation P-51 Mustang “Betty Jane” fighter will be on display.

The B-24 is the only one of its type still flying in the world, Chaney said.

Visitors can tour through the inside of the aircrafts, as well as fly aboard them.

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The North American P-51 Mustang along with other vintage aircraft will be on display from Wednesday to Friday at French Valley Airport as a part of the Wings of Freedom Tour sponsored by the Collings Foundation.
The event will not only appeal to veterans and plane buffs, it can also spark students’ interest in history.

“If you read or listen to history, you may only remember pieces of it, but if you have a tactile experience with history you tend to not forget it,” Chaney said.

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Guests can set up appointments to fly in the North American P-51 Mustang that will be making an appearance at the French Valley Airport from Wednesday to Friday.
The Collings Foundation is a nonprofit group that helps people learn more about their heritage and history through events such as the tour.

The event is set from 2 to 5 p.m. May 5, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 6 and 9 a.m. to noon May 7 at French Valley Airport, 37552 Winchester Road.

Cost is $12 for adults and $6 for children under 12 to tour inside the aircraft. The tour is free for veterans.

It costs $425 for a 30 minute flight on the B-17 or the B-24 and $2,200 for 30 minutes and $3,200 for an hour on the P-51. Cost for the flights go directly to aircraft maintenance and are tax-deductible.

To schedule a flight and for more information, call 1-800-568-8924, or visit www.collingsfoundation.org

Reach Erica Shen at erica_shen@hotmail.com

Wings of Freedom Tour

When : Wednesday to Friday

Times: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday.

9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday

9 a.m. to noon, Friday.

Where: French Valley Airport, 37552 Winchester Road

Cost: $12 for adults; $6 for children under 12 to tour inside the aircrafts. The tour is free for veterans.

Take a flight : Cost is $425 for 30 minutes on the B-17 and B-24, $2,200 for 30 minutes, $3,200 for an hour on the P-51.

To schedule a flight and for more information: 1-800-568-8924 ort www.collingsfoundation.org

Last weekend was our second fly-in event, a day of golf at Montesoro Country Club in Borrego Springs! The weather was perfect, the course was beautiful (and quite the challenge for even our most seasoned golfers!) and a fun time was had by all, including the couple of us who didn’t golf at all! Events like this are always a great time, and aferwards we often here “When is the next one?” We plan to host other events and we would like to hear feedback from you. What group events would you like to see? Any fly-ins or camping trips you might be interested in? Let us know in the comments and you might see it on the calendar very soon!

Please join us on Thursday, February 25th at 6pm for our first EFI event of the year! Bring your family and friends and meet some of your fellow pilots for a tasty dinner and a screening of the classic aviation movie “The Great Waldo Pepper”. There will also be some great prizes raffled after the show!

About the movie: A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed, eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War.

Tickets to this event are FREE for Gold Club members (limit one). For all others, tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for kids 6-12, free for kids 5 and under. The ticket price includes dinner, movie, popcorn. Your ticket will also serve as your raffle ticket at the end of the show.

Please call or visit the front office to purchase your tickets.  The movie will be shown in the hangar adjacent to the flight school, and there will be heaters to keep us warm. Feel free to bring your own outdoor chairs and blankets if you’d like! We need to have an idea of how many people are coming, so please purchase your tickets  by Tuesday, February 23rd.

This is going to be a fun event, so we hope to see you there!