Editor’s note: Unless conditions improve, bad weather has canceled the fly by.

The Heritage Flight Museum, located at Bellingham International Airport, will honor WWII fighter pilot, Museum supporter and long-time Orcas Island resident Harold Asper with a traditional missing man formation fly-by of his funeral services at 1 p.m., Thursday, June 7 at the Woodlawn Cemetery on Orcas Island.

The missing man formation is an aerial salute performed as part of a flyover of aircraft at a funeral or memorial event, typically in memory of a fallen pilot. Four aircraft fly in a “finger-four” formation, as they pass overhead the second aircraft pulls up and out of the formation to the west – representing the fallen pilot – while the rest of the formation continues on with the empty space in the formation left unfilled.

Founded in 1996 by Apollo 8 astronaut, and Orcas Island resident, Maj. General William Anders, the Heritage Flight Museum is a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation and flying of historic military aircraft. The museum settled at Bellingham International Airport in 2001 and has been developing their displays and their community programs since then.

For more info, visit www.heritageflight.org, www.facebook.com/heritageflightmuseum and www.twitter.com/heritagefltmus.