Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan hosted the Mitchell Trophy Air Race for the first time in eighty-nine years.

14, 1922. The trophy was introduced by Lt. Mitchell's brother, Col. Billy Mitchell. It was traditionally hosted at the Selfridge ANGB, home of the 127th Wing, until its suspension in 1936. Except for ...

Of note, it honors the 332ndfighter group of the famed Tuskegee Airmen that moved to Selfridge on March 29, 1943, where Colonel Benjamin O. Davis became the first African American commander on Oct. 8, ...