CALHOUN'S FLYING ACE RECALLED IN WOOD FEST PARADE - Captain Ford Rogers Was WV's Oldest Pilot

(06/09/2014)

Photo courtesy of Esther Wilson

The late Captain Ford Rogers - "The Flying Captain" - of Arnoldsburg, who died in 2012 at 87, was remembered in the 52nd Wood Festival Parade with the appearance of one of his planes, at the time of his death he was West Virginia's oldest flying aviator. The plane was an entry of Calhoun's Civil Air Patrol.

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