Davis-Monthan AFB is home to the Daedalian’s Old Pueblo Flight 12.  The flight stood up in 1963 with 53 members across three states – Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.  Among the original members was Senator Barry Goldwater.  Today the Old Pueblo Flight is a Tucson-based organization with 130 members.  The flight includes Air Force, Army and Navy members; numerous combat veterans; and three POWs from the Vietnam war.  The flight meets the third Thursday of the month (SEP – MAY) for a luncheon and military aviation speaker. 

The Old Pueblo Flight is actively engaged in realizing the objectives of the National Order:

• We annually present the prestigious “Pilot of the Year” award to a pilot chosen from a flying squadron at Davis-Monthan
• We present scholarships each year to University of Arizona cadets in the Air Force, Army, and Navy ROTC programs
• Each spring the flight provides the Daedalian Achievement Award to a JROTC cadet at 11 high schools across southern Arizona
• The flight sponsors heritage projects that preserve military aviation history.  In 2019 the Old Pueblo Flight helped sponsor the return of the D-Day Doll aircraft, which dropped paratroopers on D-Day, to Normandy for the 75^th anniversary of D-Day.
• New in 2019, the flight is instituting the “Outstanding Mission Support Award” for a junior NCO whose work is key to the flying mission at DAVIS-MONTHAN.

2020 Heritage Project

For a third year, the Old Pueblo Flight has undertaken a Heritage Project in furtherance of one of the Order’s key objectives – “Honor those who have flown in defense of our nation.”  For 2020, the flight chose a project at Davis-Monthan’s 354^th Fighter Squadron.  The Daedalian Flight installed a permanent granite marker in front of the 354^th’s T-72 Main Battle Tank captured during Desert Storm. The marker was presented to the Bulldogs on 30 Oct 2020.