Turn your eyes toward the skies as dozens of vintage planes—some from 1939—will be flying over Washington, D.C., on Saturday, May 11.

"The flyover will consist of 15 different 'chapters' telling the story of GA in America starting in the Golden Age and continuing to the present day," says the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), the organization hosting the event.

According to the AOPA, 58 planes are scheduled to take off from Frederick Municipal Airport Saturday morning and fly along the Potomac River, east over the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument around noon.

"We will tell the story of what general aviation does for this great country," Mike Ginter of the AOPA.

What makes this event really special and exciting is the fact that the flyover will take place over one of Washington, D.C.’s most restricted flight zones, P-56.

The flight path of the D.C. Flyover event on Saturday, May 11, 2024.
Photo by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

The AOPA will be live-streaming the D.C. flyover on its YouTube channel.

If you're interested in seeing the different planes and aircraft featured in the flyover, you can do so on the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association website.

Watch the planes conduct practice runs in the video below:

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