{"id":1764,"date":"2015-03-06T00:41:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:41:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-03-06T00:41:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:41:44","slug":"geico-skytypers-add-new-jersey-2015-air-show-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/news\/geico-skytypers-add-new-jersey-2015-air-show-schedule\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Geico Skytypers Add New Jersey to 2015 Air Show Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/skytypers.preview.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"325\" height=\"200\" \/> The Geico Skytypers, for the first time ever, added Millville, New Jersey to its upcoming air show schedule which features more than a dozen shows this season beginning this month. The SNJ warbirds take off from their Long Island, New York base to fly up and down the east coast between March and November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur SNJs trained the pilots of the Greatest Generation,\u201d said Steve Kapur, GEICO Skytypers pilot and team marketing director. \u201cWe consider it a privilege to inspire kids, honor veterans and fly these warbirds on behalf of our sponsor GEICO at air shows all across the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Geico Skytypers\u2019 2015 schedule shares the skies eight times with the U.S. Navy Blue Angles and four times with the Air Force Thunderbirds. Additionally, three of their stops will feature an air vs. sea race between the pilots and a water-bound counterpart, the Miss Geico offshore racing team. Stops for the air vs. sea race include Jones Beach, New York, Atlantic City, New Jersey and Jacksonville Beach, Florida.<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n\u201cWe know our sister speedboat team is the eight-time world champion,\u201d said Larry Arken, Commanding Officer and GEICO Skytypers Flight Lead. \u201cBut one of our pilots, Tom Daly has his own world speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah and he never likes to come in second \u2013 even when he\u2019s racing in a 75-year-old warbird.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GEICO Skytypers 2015 Air Show Schedule<br \/>\nMar 21-22            Melbourne Air and Space Show                                                 Melbourne Beach, FL<br \/>\nApr 11-12             MCAS Beaufort Airshow 2015                                                   MCAS Beaufort, SC<br \/>\nApr 22-25             Sun &#038; Fun International Fly-In and Expo                                    Lakeland, FL<br \/>\nMay 9-10              2015 Millville Wheels and Wings Airshow                                   Millville, NJ<br \/>\nMay 16-17            2015 Great New England Air Show                                            Westover AFB, MA<br \/>\nMay 23-24            Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach*                                          Jones Beach, NY<br \/>\nMay 30-31            RI National Guard Open House Air Show                                   Quonset ANG, RI<br \/>\nJune 20-21           2015 Westmoreland County Air Show                                        Latrobe, PA<br \/>\nSep 2                   2015 Atlantic City Airshow Presented by GEICO*                        Atlantic City, NJ<br \/>\nSept 19-20           Naval Air Station Oceana Air Show                                             NAS Oceana, VA<br \/>\nOct 3-4                Wings Over North Georgia Air Show                                           Rome, GA<br \/>\nOct 24-25             Jacksonville Sea and Sky Spectacular *                                      Jacksonville Beach, FL<br \/>\nNov 6-7               Naval Air Station Pensacola Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show    NAS Pensacola, FL<br \/>\n*Air shows with the additional attraction of the land-sea duel between GEICO Skytypers and eight-time world champion Miss GEICO<\/p>\n<p>Visit www.geicoskytypers.com for more information<\/p>\n<div class=\"field_attachment\">\n<div><b>Attachment:<\/b><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Geico Skytypers, for the first time ever, added Millville, New Jersey to its upcoming air show schedule which features more than a dozen shows this season beginning this month. The SNJ warbirds take off from their Long Island, New York base to fly up and down the east coast between March and November. \u201cOur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/skytypers.preview.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}