BUFFALO, Minn. — When a beat-up, World War II-era Stearman biplane was in need of a good home in 1980, aviator Ray Johnson decided to take it in. "It was literally in our house, growing up," said ...

My infatuation with Stearmans began at 7 years old, when, while piled into the back of our Oldsmobile Cutlass station wagon on a family road trip to Florida, I spied a barnstormer in a brilliant ...

The best place to watch John Mohr fly his Stearman would have been up against the airshow fence, where I could have heard the crowd’s gasps when the airplane, which had disappeared behind trees, ...