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The 2024 Thunder over Michigan Air Show will return to Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti on Saturday and Sunday. The annual event is presented by the Wayne County Airport Authority, with a variety ...
B-24s under construction at Willow Run. Willow Run, also known as Air Force Plant 31, was a manufacturing complex in Michigan, United States, located between Ypsilanti Township and Belleville, built by the Ford Motor Company to manufacture aircraft, especially the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber. [1]
2006 USGS photo. Willow Run Airport covers 2,392 acres (968 ha) and has two runways, a continuously staffed FAA control tower, and US Customs operations. [1] It is one of two facilities operated by the Wayne County Airport Authority, the other being Detroit Metropolitan Airport, which replaced Willow Run as the major commercial airport for the region starting in 1958.
In 1951, the United States Air Force exercised a right of return to Willow Run and established Willow Run Air Force Station to the east of the airport runway. On 7 April 1952 the site became operational with the establishment of Headquarters, 30th Air Division at the site, which was designated P-23 by ADC.
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The Detroit Region Aerotropolis (also referred to as the DRA, Detroit Aerotropolis or Michigan Aerotropolis) is a four-community, two-county public-private economic development partnership focused on driving corporate expansion and new investments around Wayne County Airport Authority's airports: Detroit Metropolitan Airport and Willow Run Airport. [1]
Yankee Air Force Education Center. The Yankee Air Force Inc. was founded in 1981 to pursue these goals: [3] To preserve a part of Michigan's extensive aviation history. To acquire one of the original USAAF hangars and restore it to its original condition. To obtain a B-24 Liberator built at the Ford Willow Run plant, site of the museum.
Now: Selfridge Air National Guard Base (1971-present) Oscoda AAF, Oscoda; 524th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron (reduced) Sub-base of Selfridge AAF Was: Oscoda Air Force Base (1947-1953) Was: Wurtsmith Air Force Base (1953-1993) Now: Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport (IATA: OSC, ICAO: KOSC) Army Air Force Training Command. Willow Run Airport ...