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We've come a long way!

More than a decade ago, Brigadier General Dan Cherry and a group of friends from Bowling Green, KY made a “boy’s trip” to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. While there the museum staff advised Cherry that there was an aircraft on static display at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post in Enon, Ohio, that he and his group might like to visit. It was the very F-4 Phantom fighter (#550) General Cherry had been flying in Vietnam on April 16, 1972, when he achieved an aerial victory over a MiG 21 in Vietnam. The group went to the VFW Post and Dan was reunited with his fighter.

During the long trip home these men speculated about the possibility of obtaining the F-4 for display in Bowling Green, to honor not only Cherry, but also to secure other aircraft to honor aviators from South-Central Kentucky who had aviation accomplishments.

Thus was born the concept of Aviation Heritage Park.