MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Leaders of a vintage airplane collectors group known as the Confederate Air Force say they'll call a vote to decide whether to change the group's name because of concerns it may be costing them business at air shows.

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The organization's name has nothing to do with the Civil War — the name stuck after somebody painted it on the tail of a fighter plane in the 1950s. The group's 8,500 members maintain about 140 airplanes that flew during World War II and fly some of them at air shows across the country.

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