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Aircraft festival lands in Gainesville
46th annual Cracker Fly-In touches down July 11
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E.J. and Kayla Radich, 5 and 7, work the controls of the local Civil Air Patrol Cessna 172 at last year’s annual Cracker Fly-In at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville.
An array of aircraft from small Cessnas to biplanes as well as a Lockheed Electra A-12, made famous in films about Amelia Earhart, will touch down for the annual Cracker Fly-In next weekend in Gainesville. For 46 years, the Gainesville chapter of the Experimental Aviation Association has brought a festival of flight to town. Similar to a car show, except with airplanes, the event will feature 200 aircraft at the show beginning at 7 a.m. Saturday, July 11, at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport.