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Patriotic flyover set for Apple Festival weekend

The Bandit team will fly over Main Street on Sept. 4. [PHOTO BY MARK HERBOTH]

By Lightning Reports, Published: August 9, 2021

The Bandit Flight Team will fly over downtown Hendersonville once again in an aerial salute to America during the N.C. Apple Festival on Saturday, Sept. 4.

Six planes will fly in formation over Main Street at noon while a patriotic musical tribute plays on the Historic Courthouse stage. The Bandit Flight Team’s first pass will begin at the Triangle Stop on the north end of Main and travel south toward the courthouse. A second pass will fly in the opposite direction complete with a ‘bomb burst’ maneuver over the city followed by a circling of downtown. ‘The Bandit Flight Team is excited to be a part of the 75th North Carolina Apple Festival,’ Bandit leader Jim Kilpatrick said. ‘When the parade and other pieces of the street fair had to be canceled last year, our team was still able to provide a parade in the sky. This year we are thrilled to return and fly over the Apple Festival.’ The flyover is sponsored by Triangle Stop Food Stores.