Officials of the fledgling Rocket Racing League announced Monday in New York City that it will hold four exhibition races later this year, including one in Las Cruces, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported.

The league announced it would hold its first exhibition at the EEA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., on Aug. 1-2, the Sun-News said.

The league's third exhibition race will take place at the 2008 X Prize Cup, which has been held in October at the Las Cruces International Airport, but has lately held the bulk of the event at Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, according to the Sun-News.

But the date and time of the X Prize Cup competition hasn't been announced yet, the paper said.

Exhibition races also are planned for the Reno National Championship Air Races in September and for Aviation Nation, held at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nev., in early November, the Sun-News reported.

Billing itself as a kind of "NASCAR in the sky," the league pits rocket-powered aircraft racing on a virtual track in the air, the paper said.

The league plans to establish its world headquarters in Las Cruces, and ground was broken earlier this year on two hangars at the Las Cruces airport, the Sun-News said.

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