(Photo submitted) Chandy Clanton was the youngest female pilot at the 2003 World Championships in Lakeland, Fla. June 15 she will be performing in Spencer as part of the Spencer Airshow and Flight Breakfast.

Spencer Airshow Coord-inator for 2008, Gayle Brandt, announced the airshow entertainment line-up for the June 15 annual Flight Show and Flight Breakfast.

This year's event, which helps conclude the community's Flagfest activities and also falls on Father's Day, will feature high flying performers Chandy Clanton in her Edge 540, Doug Rozendaal with the "Gunfighter" P51 Mustang, and Kyle Franklin in his "Mystery Ship" Waco.

The free airshow is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Audience members are encouraged to bring chairs or blankets to sit on. Prior to the show, a pancake flight breakfast will be held in the Northwest Iowa Regional Airport hangar from 7-11 a.m.

Also on site, displays from the Iowa Lakes Community College aviation program, tandem skydiving and others.

Young Eagle Rides will be provided by local pilots for kids ages 8-17 at no charge for the passengers.

About the performers:

Chandy Clanton is not your average air show performer, at age 35, Chandy is a 12-year veteran in the air show business, a world class aerobatic competitor, a type rated pilot in the high-tech Lear Jet and the vintage DC-3, a mentor to young aerobatic pilots, the daughter of an aviator and an aviatrix, and the mother of two future aviators.

Clanton's credential's list her as a three-time member of the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team, the youngest female pilot at the 2003 World Championships in Lakeland, Fla., winner of the the Programme Q flight at the 2007 Championships in Granada, Spain, and includes her as the only woman named to the 2003 "Stars of Tomorrow" program.

She has been seen on many TV news broadcasts and The Weather Channel,

as well as Discovery Wings programs that highlight the best pilots in the aerobatic world.

Clanton has flown many types of aircraft including the Piper Cub, P-51 Mustang, Lear Jet, Beech KingAir, numerous light twins and countless high performance single engine airplanes. She is an accomplished well-rounded aviator who earned a type rating in the Lear 24 with only 400 hours in her logbook. These airplane experiences are secondary to Clanton's true passion for flight -- extreme precision aerobatics. She has flown the Christen Eagle, Extra 200 and 300L, One Design, Pitts Special and the Russian Sukhoi. Her current airplane is the awesome state-of-the-art 340-horsepower Edge 540 built by Zivko Aeronautics in Guthrie, Okla.

Doug Rozendaal will be performing in the "Gunfighter" P51 Mustang. The historic combat aircraft of the Commemorative Air Force defended our nation and won the skies on every battlefront of the globe in WWII.

They are regarded as living monuments to the thousands of men and women who built, serviced, and flew them. These aircraft are being preserved in flying condition for future generations of Americans to see them in action, as they were flown in defense of our nation more than 60 years ago.

The Great Plains Wing is dedicated to honoring all veterans through education at airshows, in the museum and at the hangar.

The Great Plains Wing started in the Omaha/Council Bluffs area in 1984. It was originally formed and chartered as the Nebraska Squadron and met on the Strategic Air Command Museum grounds. The squadron quickly proved it's volunteers' talent and ability to successfully complete major projects, helping to restore a C-47, B-17, B-25, and B-29. In 1986, the squadron changed it's name to the Great Plains Wing. In 1988, a new hangar was built at the Council Bluffs airport including a museum and meeting room. In 1990, our P-51 "Gunfighter", joined the wing's L-3 and L-5. Find out more about these aircraft and the other GPW vehicles on the Hangar page.

The Great Plains Wing of the Commemorative Air Force thrives because of the many people willing to give their time, talent, and resources to the organization. Without their dedication and hard work, our mission could not be accomplished.

Kyle Franklin, 28, is one of the youngest airshow professionals in the airshow industry. He is the only son of legendary airshow pilot Jimmy Franklin. Kyle has been performing in airshows for over 10 years, has been around aviation his entire life. He experienced his first airplane ride when he was just 4 weeks old! Kyle grew up living with his family in an apartment built inside an airplane hangar. In addition to becoming his favorite playground, the hanger became a means for Kyle to spend quality time with his father by helping him work on the Wacos, Super Cubs, and his Aerostar and because of this, Kyle is now a licensed A&P mechanic.

Kyle's father taught him how to fly when he was 8 and later taught him aerobatics in the Super Cub. Kyle, now an accomplished pilot of over 19 years, is not new to what some people would call dare-devilish feats. As a toddler, he learned to ride a tricycle on just 2 wheels! A few years later, Kyle graduated to BMX free-styling and air-walking and then mastered motorcycles. At the age of 8, Kyle fell in love with DeLorean cars. As a sophomore in high school, he had bought a DeLorean of his own and modified it with a bigger engine, flame thrower, oil slick, and smoke system only to work it into the airshow line-up of course.

Like his father, he began flying at a very young age. As a preschooler, he seized every opportunity to wing-walk on Dad's WACO "Mystery Ship" as it taxied about on the ground at airshows. At age 14 Kyle went for his first flying wing-walk on the Waco "Mystery Ship" and by the time he was 17, he was wing-walking professionally at airshows around the country as the world's youngest Wingwalker. He and Jimmy also made up the ONLY father/son wing-walking team in history. In 1999, his father debuted the new Jet Waco. Naturally, Kyle didn't hesitate at the opportunity to climb through the flying wires of this beast! At this point, Kyle became the world's first Jet Wingwalker. In addition, Kyle is the only other person who ever piloted Jimmy's Jet Waco.

In the Summer of 2003, Kyle began performing in his Father's one of a kind Waco "Mystery Ship." This is one of the few big bi-plane aerobatic acts you will find on the airshow circuit today. Besides a full complement of loops, rolls, Cuban 8's and hammer heads, Kyle is one of a handful of pilots that will actually torque roll, tail slide3, and even lomcevak tumble his massive Waco bi-plane. This act has it all: noise, smoke, speed, looks, nostalgia and low-flying aerobatics.

Today, Kyle has retired from wingwalking, and focuses fully on his flying. Airshows are Kyle's full-time job, performing four different acts with the Super Cub and Waco "Mystery Ship" at airshows all across the country with his loving wife and "manager," Amanda.

Origianlly used to train civilians as pilots before America's entry into World War II, the Waco eventually became available for widespread commercial use, such as dusting crops or barnstorming around the nation at early airshows.

Because of all the extensive modifications, this Waco no longer looks like an original Waco, and was dubbed the "Waco Mystery Ship."

The "Waco Mystery Ship" is also a movie star. It has appeared in "Terminal Velocity" staring Charlie Sheen, "Forever Young" staring Mel Gibson, and Disney's "Delta Dream Flight" -- a Disneyland ride.