On McGee’s 100th birthday, he co-piloted a state-of-the-art private business jet. This was made possible by Vincent Mickens, an executive of the Private Air Media Group, who met McGee for the first time in 2012. Since he turned 99, he has flown or taxied a number of different aircraft around the country at various events

On McGee’s 100th birthday, he co-piloted a state-of-the-art private business jet. This was made possible by Vincent Mickens, an executive of the Private Air Media Group, who met McGee for the first time in 2012. Since he turned 99, he has flown or taxied a number of different aircraft around the country at various events.

WWII Retired Col. Charles E. McGee is one of the last remaining members of a very exclusive group of men who wrote a profoundly important chapter in the annals in American military and social history, the Tuskegee Airmen.

McGee and his fellow Tuskegee Airmen flew the P-47 and P-51 fighters as escorts for the massive bomber squadrons on missions throughout the war. They did this with such courage and skill that they were often expressly requested by the bomber crews who had to fly those dangerous bombing missions against German fighter planes. McGee flew over 400 combat missions over his 30 year career in the military from WWII until he retired.