2024 Air Shows and Events

Stockton Airport's Kids Day, November 9th

What an easy event to show up at, when it's at your home airport! Jan brought the star of the show, her Stinson L-5, and was gracious enough to let kids crawl aboard for some excitement and hopefully a future career in aviation. Also present was the newly acquired Douglas A-26, Beechcraft Model 18, Lockheed PV-2D Harpoon, and a couple of pups that got way too much attention! Thanks Stockton Airport for the wonderful community event.


Photos courtesy of Jan Johnson

D-Day 80th Anniversary in Normandy, May 26th to June 12th

Taigh Ramey and his other half, Jan Johnson go to Normandy France in her WC-51 for the commemoration of D-Day, on Omaha Beach. They even got to take a peek at a familiar B-29, Hawg Wild!


Photos courtesy of Jan Johnson

Bomber Camp, May 3rd

The Stockton Field Aviation Museum, with Vintage Aircraft, puts on our annual Bomber Camp event that was yet another hit! Thanks to Erickson Aircraft Collection's aircraft, Ye Olde Pub, we had so many happy Bomber Campers. Thank you, Erickson!

Masters of the Air Premire, January 26th

A lovely turnout for the premiere of the new Tom Hanks, Apple+ TV Series that Taigh Ramey himself had a part in making as authentic as possible. We had a full house for the two episode premire, so much that we decided to have a showing every Friday for the rest of the series! Thank you, all who showed up.

2023 Air Shows and Events

Reno Air Races, September 13th-17th - The Last One

The Stockton Field Aviation Museum's own PV-2D Harpoon visits Reno for the last time.

Eagle Field 40's Dinner Dance, June 3rd

Taigh and Jan flew formation in Jan's two Stinson L-5's, while Sydney and her partner Clay trucked in the booze - I mean luggage. Always a blast at Eagle Field, thank you Joe!

2022 Air Shows and Events

Reno Air Races, September 13th-18th

Vintage Aircraft's own Twin Beech D-18S attends and participates in the NAHI display at the Reno Air Races. She didn't win any awards, but certainly represented the Beech community very well! Photo credited to Ron Kaplan, which shows one of the many school tours done during the show.

Manteca Memorial Flyover, May 29th

The Stockton Field Aviation Museum's PV-2D as well as our own Twin Beech D-18S were asked to fly over the local Memorial Day parade, so of course we couldn't say no! And as the topping on the already wonderful cake, WWII Veteran Pat Patteson flew the PV-2D, as he had flown other PV's in WWII. Thank you for your service, Pat!

Travis AFB Air Show, May 12th-15th

The Stockton Field Aviation Museum's PV-2D Harpoon starts off the Air Show season by attending the Travis AFB's bi-annual air show, as a static display aircraft. WWII Veteran Pat Patteson once again graces the cockpit for the flight to and from the show, and was even given a challenge coin from the the Base Commander during the air show performer's dinner that night. Go Pat! He even flew the Twin Beech back home with one of our pilots, Robin Gearey.

Banana Republic Photoshoot, February 12th

Banana Republic reached out to us for an interesting trip across to Antigua, for a photoshoot! Thank you Banana Republic for the wonderful adventure, and opportunity.


2021 Events

Masters of the Air Filming - Top Secret

2020 Events

Veteran Flight, October 17th

Thanks to Coy Pfaff, Jayson Owen, and Peter Houghton, we had two very happy vets! WWII Veterans Pat Patteson and Don Long were given an opportunity to fly in Coy's PBY. Both men trained and flew in PBYs during WWII. Don Long was even a radio man and he was standing watch on his PBY in Kaneohe Bay on the morning of December 7th, 1941.

Past Events

Dirty Bird Express, July 2009

For Oshkosh 2009, Taigh Ramey and crew decided to take on getting a Beech C-45 up to speed to make the trek all the way to Wisconsin, with the inntention of winning the Dirty Bird Award. There's too many great photos to share on this page, but see how they did on that trip, here.