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vintage vehicles and aircraft.

“This is a living museum, versus a dead museum,” Womack said.

The Dixie Wing also keeps its own small museum of World War II artifacts. The museum, set in a corner of the hangar, includes uniforms, military and civilian pieces, and hundreds of model airplanes. The museum includes a group of wooden toys from the 1940s, so guides can show visiting schoolchildren what they would have had to play with during a time when metal was reserved for military usage.

But the main activity in the Dixie Wing’s building and hangar at Falcon Field remains preserving airplanes and their history. And that means keeping them flying.

“It surprises people,” Womack said. “They look at the airplane and it looks flyable, but they’re surprised it’s still flying.”

For more info, visit: dixiewing.org commemorativeairforce.org