April 30, 2020

Air Guard flyovers in central Indiana potponed to Saturday

An Indiana Air National Guard A-10 Thunderbolt takes off during a 2016 training mission in New York. - US. Air National Guard/MSgt Eric Miller

An Indiana Air National Guard A-10 Thunderbolt takes off during a 2016 training mission in New York.

US. Air National Guard/MSgt Eric Miller

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A series of flyovers by the Indiana Air National Guard’s 122nd Fighter Wing in several central Indiana cities has been postponed to Saturday due to weather and expanded.

The flyovers by four A-10 Thunderbolts are intended to salute hospitals and to lift morale during the coronavirus pandemic, officials said.

The flyovers now are scheduled for downtown Terre Haute at 11:35 a.m., the Johnson Armory near Franklin at 11:50, then, minutes later, Community Hospital East, St. Vincent Hospital in Carmel, the VA Hospital and University Hospital in downtown Indianapolis, the Lawrence Armory, downtown Anderson at 12:05 p.m., then downtown Muncie, and the Marion VA hospital.

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