Cannon Air Force Base, a United States Air Force base located approximately 7 miles southwest of Clovis, New Mexico, will host its first "Wings Over Cannon Air Show" after a five-year hiatus.
Col. Terence Taylor, commander of Cannon Air Force Base, is enthusiastic about the upcoming show.
"We’re excited to open up the base to the public, and put a lot of things on display for folks to see, hopefully generate a lot of a lot of enthusiasm with respect to the air force and air power, but excited to put things on demo for the local community," Taylor said.
A variety of displays and demos from some of the highest-trained personnel in the world will be featured at the Wings Over Cannon Air Show, according to KRQE News. From the CV-22 Osprey, built right here in Amarillo, to the AC-130J Gunship, which KAMR’s Roushell Hamilton Jr. profiled last year, Cannon Air Force Base has some of the most advanced equipment on the planet.
“Folks will be able to come on to the base and view a lot of static displays, or aircraft and setups and those types of things on this side of the bay," Taylor said. "There will also be aerial demonstrations."
Cannon Air Force Base, home of the 27th Special Operations Wing, lies in the high plains of eastern New Mexico, near the Texas Panhandle.
The base is eight miles west of Clovis, New Mexico, and is 4,295 feet above sea level. The base itself sits on 3,789 acres of land. The history of the base began in the late 1920s, when a civilian passenger facility, Portair Field, was established on the site. Portair, a terminal for early commercial transcontinental flights, flew passengers in the Ford Trimotor "Tin Goose" by day, and used Pullman trains for night travel. In the 1930s, Portair was renamed Clovis Municipal Airport, according to KRQE News.
Currently, it is unknown as to whether or not those will be in the show, as Cannon personnel is keeping the lineup pretty close to the chest right now.
“The whole point of this is to open things up for the community and, and expose the community to some of the things that we get to see here every day," Taylor said. "But we’re also bringing in a 10-demo team. So that’s a bit of a faster-moving demonstration team."
The show is free and open to the public at 8 a.m., Saturday, April 22. For more information, visit here.