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Rocket Bob

Grand Island, Nebraska, United States
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Rocket Bob, a more-than-10-foot-tall, chain-saw-carved wooden cowboy statue that has stood at the fixed-base-operator (Executive Air) terminal of the Central Nebraska Regional Airport in Grand Island for nearly 30 years, greeting an unusually long list of celebrity visitors.
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Rocket Bob
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Approximate location · 40.968° N, 98.310° W
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Free, publicly visible statue at the general-aviation terminal of Central Nebraska Regional Airport, Grand Island.
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Central Nebraska Regional Airport, Executive Air fixed-base-operator terminal, Grand Island, NE.
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