Established | 2003 |
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Founder | Paul Wood |
Type | Nonprofit |
Location | |
Coordinates | 42°25′17″N 87°52′25″W / 42.4215°N 87.8735°W |
Website | www |
The Warbird Heritage Foundation is a non-profit organization located at the Waukegan National Airport in Waukegan, Illinois that performs at airshows with retired military aircraft.
The foundation was established by Paul Wood in 2003.[1]
A P-51 owned by the foundation and flown by Vlado Lenoch was destroyed in a fatal accident in July 2017.[2][3]
A Boeing B75 belonging to the foundation was damaged in an accident in 2018.[4]
The Northern Illinois Airshow, formerly known as the Waukegan Air Show and Wings Over Waukegan, is hosted at the airport.[19][20]