Airshow returns to MCAS Beaufort: What you need to know

By Delayna Earley

The Island News

Are you a fan of airplanes?

Looking for a fun family event for the weekend?

Well, you are in luck. The Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort Airshow is back.

The show, which will be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 22 and 23, at MCAS Beaufort, is free for the public to attend, and tickets are not required. However, there are special seating

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LOLITA HUCKABY and VIP tickets available for purchase in advance if you want to be closer to the action.

The event will feature a demonstration by the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels.

You may see, and hear, the Blue Angels practicing for the show later in the week.

The airshow will also include performances and demonstrations by Clemens Kuhlig with Chefpitts Air Shows, Extreme Flight, an F-35B, Gary Rower with Rower Air Shows, Kyle Fowler,

AIRSHOW AFTERPARTY

Make sure to check out the Airshow Afterparty on Saturday, April 22, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Port Royal. The party, which will be held at the corner of Paris Avenue and 8th Street, will feature the Parris Island Marine Corps band, food trucks, beer wagon and a tap truck.

Kyle Franklin with Franklin’s Flying Circus, Chris Thomas, Patty Wagstaff, Rob Holland, the MCAS Marine

Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF), the SOCOM Para-Commandos and Precision Exotics.

Kuhlig will be flying the Pitts Special, “an iconic airplane that lends itself well to beautiful rolling, curving lines, snap rolls and excellent outside capability,” accord-

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BEAUFORT

The front page of last week’s edition of The Island News told a story of the Lowcountry almost without reading.

In case you missed it, there was the lead story about St. Helena Island supporters “claiming an early win” in their fight to keep a gated, golf-course resort off Pine Island. There was a lengthy report by Tony Kukulich of The Post and Courier about the ongoing fight south of the Broad River to “keep Chelsea rural” while facing the prospect of at least 4,800 new homes on the Jasper County side of S.C. 170.

There was the Lowcountry Lowdown once again, spouting doom and gloom, this time about a County Council member’s reminder that Hilton Head Island is the financial golden goose of the county and we might as well accept the development that’s

SEE LOWDOWN PAGE A5