ASHWAUBENON, WI (WTAQ)- Old Glory Honor Flight, Brown County and the Green Bay Packers came together Thursday to give Veterans a new opportunity.
Old Glory Honor Flight revealed plans for a new flight that will depart from Austin Straubel International Airport to provide Veterans a chance to see their war memorial in Washington DC.
The flight, next November will make history, as it will be the first Honor Flight to depart from Green Bay.
Drew MacDonald, President of Old Glory Honor Flight says all other flights through the years have departed from either Appleton or Oshkosh.
Out of 43 flights, all but eight flights were flown out of Outagamie International Airport.
“The Flight of Champions is our version out of Brown County, in conjunction with the Packers.”
MacDonald says being a first time event takes a lot of planning and partnership.
“It amplifies the complexity drastically” MacDonald said.
The plans for now is for The Flight of Champions to be a one time event, but the possibility of expanding to future flights, is not out of the cards yet.
World War II Veterans can sign up for the new flight, but MacDonald wans that they will be taking a majority of passengers who are currently on a waiting list.
The waiting list is more than 600 people long.
The date of the flight is November 1st.
It will conclude Brown Counties 200th Anniversary celebration and the Packers 100th Anniversary.
In attendance at the event along with McDonald were Brown County Executive Troy Streckenbach, World War II Veteran and Pearl Harbor Survivor Firman Balza and Packers CEO and President Mark Murphy.
