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Meet & Greet with Tuskegee Airman Franklin Macon as he talks about his experiences and releases a new book “I Wanted to be a Pilot: The Making of a Tuskegee Airman”.
Mr. Macon was born in Kansas in 1924, but moved to Colorado Springs as a child and has called it home ever since. He is an Original Tuskegee Airman who first learned to fly at Pine Valley Airport, just north of town. Pine Valley is now the U.S. Air Force Academy Airfield and is still in operation today training future Air Force Officers. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943, and began his military flight training in 1944 as part of Tuskegee’s class 45A, where he flew various aircraft, to include the bi-wing Stearman, the Piper Cub, and the PT-6 Texan.
Admission to Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum on Saturday, February 23rd will give you access to this event.