Red Tail Reborn

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The Red Tail Project is a group of men and women who honored the Airmen by touring air shows with a restored P-51C Mustang, the famous roaring fighter plane flown in WWII combat. Their goal was to make the Tuskegee Airmen a household name, but like the men they honored, the Red Tail Project also faced adversity. In 2004 their flying homage to the Airmen crashed, killing pilot and project leader Don Hinz.

SPA guys were present at the airshow when Don Hinz's plane crashed. We witnessed it. The photo album 2005 Red Wing Air show. Funny it said 2005. It is actually 2004.

Sad thing is that his son, a Marine jet fighter pilot, died a year later in a plane crash in Iraq.

Naresh