On Saturday, the nonprofit’s founder and CEO, Tony Anger, took the 100-year-old for a flight aboard a Fairchild PT-26 WWII trainer called Amazing Grace, according to KNXY-TV. After departing from Falcon Field Airport in Mesa, Arizona, the pair flew past Weaver’s Needle and above the Superstition Mountains.
“It was a nice flight,” Becker told KNXY-TV. “[Tony’s] a good pilot.”
“It was fun watching his face,” Anger said. “He was smiling the whole time and looking around.”
Becker’s joy ride was Grounded No More’s 469th honorary flight. In December, Pearl Harbor survivor Jack Holder celebrated his 100th birthday a day early by taking a flight aboard the Amazing Grace with Anger, according to a previous KNXY-TV story.
“I thought it was great. It brought back all the memories,” Holder, a Navy veteran, told the outlet.
Following Pearl Harbor, he flew in more than 100 missions, including the Battle of Midway, the outlet reported.