70th Anniversary of the 1955 Fairchild National Sports Car Races at Hagerstown Airport

Name: 70th Anniversary of the 1955 Fairchild National Sports Car Races at Hagerstown Airport
Start: 2025-09-13T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-14T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Hagerstown Aviation Museum

Schedule

Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 at 09:00 am to Sun, 14 Sep, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Hagerstown Aviation Museum | Hagerstown, MD

As part of this year's FAIRCHILD AIRCRAFT 100th Anniversary Homecoming event, A special exhibit will celebrate the 70th Anniversary of a major motorsport event that took place at the Hagerstown Airport Oct 16th 1955 - "THE FAIRCHILD NATIONAL SPORTS CAR RACES." A variety of vintage SCCA race cars from that era will be displayed - including a 1955 Lotus IX that raced at Hagerstown in the first race of the day - "The Pegasus" by Len Bastrup. There will be a roundtable discussion and a video presentation with historical photographs and details of the event that took place October 16, 1955.