Restored vintage World War II bomber certified to fly
(AP) — A World War II aircraft that took nearly 16 years to restore might be flying over Kansas in the next few weeks after receiving a certificate of airworthiness from the Federal Aviation Administration.
A nonprofit group called Doc's Friends on Friday officially accepted the FAA certificate for a B-29 bomber known as "Doc."
Several dozen members of Doc's Friends and other supporters attended the ceremony at the World War II aircraft's hangar at Air Capital Flight Line, the grounds of the former Boeing Wichita complex.
The Wichita plant manufactured 1,644 of the airplanes, which are best known as the bomber type used to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, ending World War II in the Pacific.