Big Red (soft drink) by mixing orange and lemon oils with the traditional vanilla used in other cream sodas. Big Red is produced and distributed by various independent soft drink bottlers including Keurig Dr Pepper, CCE, and Pepsi Bottling Group under license from Big Red, Inc., based in Austin, Texas. Big Red was the sixth-highest selling soft drink company in the United States from 2002–2004, after Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr Pepper/7Up, Cott and National Beverage Company. As a preeminent red creme soda in the South, it is a staple of many Juneteenth celebrations. In 2007 Big Red Ltd. was purchased by Gary Smith, with backing
Waco CRG bearing his name. The CRG flown by Livingston, NC600Y, still survives today and has been owned by the Heins family for 54 years (2016). The CRG NC660Y flown by Davis ended its flying career as a cropduster in Greenville, Mississippi in 1938. Waco CRG NC600Y was re-engined in 1939 with a Wright R-760E-2 powerplant of and was used by Andy Stinis, of the Skywriting Corporation of America, for skywriting at high altitude as the original Pepsi-Cola Skywriter. Waco CRG The Waco G series is an American open-cockpit sporting biplane of the early 1930s. The Waco G series was designed specifically