Bush 41 Marks Birthday With Tandem Jump With Army Parachute Team

June 12, 2009 10:04 a.m. EST

Kennebunkport, ME (AHN) - Former President George H.W. Bush will celebrate his 85th birthday on Friday by jumping off a plane, the fourth time the 41st president will have done so since his days as the youngest U.S. Navy pilot in WWII.

Bush, father of 43rd president George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, will make a tandem jump with the U.S. Army's Golden Knights parachute team over Kennebunkport in Maine.

He previously jumped with the tandem team on his 75th and 80th birthdays, and most recently in 2007 during the 10th anniversary and rededication of the Bush Library in College Station, Texas.