Doc's Friends

It’s been nearly month since major construction operations were launched at the site of the B-29 Doc Hangar and Education Center in Wichita, Kan., and construction crews are hard at work on the site at Wichita’s Eisenhower National Airport. Over…

Doc’s Friends, Inc. today (Feb. 28, 2018) announced a major gift from Sedgwick County to help fund the B-29 Doc Hangar and Education Center at Wichita’s Eisenhower National Airport. “Sedgwick County is proud to support a permanent home for Doc,…

The Wichita City Council today (Feb. 27, 2018) approved a long-term lease with Doc’s Friends, Inc., for the B-29 Doc Hangar and Education Center. The 40-year lease is effective March 1, 2018 and is the final step need before major…

Doc’s Friends has announced the partial 2018 tour schedule for B-29 Doc. The 2018 tour season will include a return trip to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI, along with two tour stops in Kansas. June 1-3, 2018: World War II…

In honor of Veterans Day, the KWCH-TV/KSCW-TV morning show segment “Where’s Shane?” stopped by to visit B-29 Doc and the restoration and maintenance crew Friday morning, Nov. 10. The crew spent more than three hours in the hangar at Air…

Doc’s Friends, Inc. has announced a major gift from Boeing that will ensure the B-29 Doc Hangar and Education Center becomes a reality at Wichita’s Eisenhower National Airport. Executives from Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems joined Doc’s Friends, Inc. board members…

Following successful and popular tour stops for B-29 Doc at EAA AirVenture (Oshkosh, WI), Wings Over Whiteman (Whiteman AFB, MO) and Defenders of Liberty (Barksdale, LA), B-29 Doc has added two more tour stops to the 2017 schedule. Doc will…

Thanks to our friends at Garmin Aviation, we captured a 360-degree view of the cockpit and flight deck of B-29 Doc in flight during EAA AirVenture 2017 in Oshkosh. Click on the video below to watch. Help built a home…

After 16 years of restoration and more than 350,000 hours of dedicated volunteer work, B-29 Doc and Doc’s Friends were recognized by EAA AirVenture Oshkosh with two Lindy Awards in the warbirds category. Each year at the air show in…

Before this week, it had been more than 50 years since two B-29s flew in formation. All of that changed over the airfield at EAA’s AirVenture 2017 in Oshkosh, WI on Tuesday. B-29s Doc and FiFi flew together for first…