This event celebrates the flight Pangborn and Herndon took on Oct. 3, 1931, leaving the Sabishiro Beach in Misawa, Japan and, unfortunately, crashing into East Wenatchee.
The city of East Wenatchee is asking boaters to stay away from planes scooping water from the Columbia River to battle the nearby brush fire.
The planes have been a daily fixture flying overhead and then dipping onto the river between Wenatchee and East Wenatchee
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