Plans are back on for the Texas Flying Legends’ first Wiscasset stay in two years, Wiscasset Airport Advisory Committee Chairman Steve Williams said Monday. Tentative plans were announced in May, then went on hold in June. The stay will be shorter than first discussed, Williams said.

Five World War II aircraft will arrive at Wiscasset Municipal Airport July 26 and leave July 31, Williams said in a phone interview. No air or static shows are planned at the town-owned airport off Chewonki Neck Road, but Williams said plans call for the planes to leave around 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 28 for a 6 p.m. private show in Southport and return around 6:30 p.m. The show is the reason for the Wiscasset visit, Williams said.

He got “good confirmation” over the weekend that the Legends would be coming, he said.

“I think it’s fabulous. I think it’s a great honor for Wiscasset to be able to host this part of American history.”

He did not have a time yet on the planes’ arrival July 26.

Most of the Legends planes will go in two of the airport’s three, large privately owned hangars, Williams said. Two displaced planes will go in a town-owned hangar, he said.

One Legends plane, a Navy torpedo bomber like the one President George Herbert Walker Bush flew in World War II, will stay outdoors, Williams said. As discussed last spring, a Legends B-25 bomber may stay in Brunswick, he said.

Williams notes the Legends’ visit in an email Monday to fellow committee members and Airport Manager Frank Costa. Costa had sent an email canceling the panel’s July 19 meeting. The email cited vacations and illness. Williams wrote back, the committee met for sixth months in workshops, when the committee was short on members.

“(We) should hold this Wednesday’s meeting as a workshop. It is the height of the airport’s season as well as we are hosting (the Legends) aircraft ...” Williams tells members to please plan to attend Wednesday’s meeting, at 5 p.m. at the airport. It’s up to the chairman to cancel a meeting, he said in Monday’s interview.

Reached later, Costa said he will be on vacation but has no problem with the committee holding a workshop without him. He plans to be back on the job for the Legends’ visit, he said.

“I’m very excited,” Costa said about the upcoming visit. “It will give the citizens of Wiscasset a nice view.” It will also add to fuel sales and possibly bring income from the Legends group for the displaced planes’ use of the town hangar, since reimbursement was discussed in the spring, Costa said.