Dozens of pilots from across the region have flown in for the event every year for decades, honoring the legacies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post. The two died in a plane crash in Alaska in 1935.

who had grown tired of Rogers lassoing him, stood in the living room. The ranch, Betty wrote in her memoir after her husband’s death in a 1935 Alaska plane crash, “was the joy of his life.” ...