Ray Johnson spent 20 years meticulously restoring a WWII-era Stearman biplane and spent another 20 years flying it around Minnesota. Now it has a new mission.

Everybody’s Favorite Trainer Starting in 1934, the same year it was acquired by Boeing, the Stearman Aircraft Company of Wichita began building a sturdy biplane trainer. By the end of the war ...

Saturday, that decision was honored by a veterans group that puts members of the Greatest Generation in the front seat of a classic Boeing Stearman biplane. The model was the trainer plane for ...