(November 2, 2025)

This past Saturday November 1st, 2025 I traveled to the Cullman County Veterans Day Celebration at the Cullman Airport, in Cullman, Alabama. Every few years I’ve been able to go and the people that put this celebration on do a fantastic job and it gets better as the years go on! For a small town airport, the quality of the static displays, historical reenactors, films shown, special guests, and of course the flying aircraft and sky diving demonstrations are just top notch!

I arrived just in time to see the opening ceremony and then visited the two warbirds that I was most excited to see – an F4U Corsair and an A1 Skyraider. Both happen to by my all-time favorite planes, so I was not going to miss this event! Those of you that have visited my page before may know that I have interviewed retired 99 year old Naval aviator Captain John Lavra, who flew both of these planes, a few times on my page and YouTube. A veteran of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, he was shot down twice in A1 Skyraiders - once behind enemy lines in Korea! You can click here to read more about Captain Lavra and his story HERE.