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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] Construction of the Willow Run Bomber Plant began in 1940 [2] and was ...
The Willow Run bomber plant had many problems at startup, due in part to the mindsets and technical skills of both management and labor, who were each accustomed to the requirements of auto production, finding it difficult at first to adapt to the higher precision required in aircraft production. [11]
Former logo. In April 2013, Yankee Air Museum and RACER Trust, owner of the former General Motors Willow Run plant, announced a plan for Yankee Air Museum to acquire a 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m 2) portion of the factory, contingent upon the museum raising the funds necessary to preserve and secure their proposed portion of the facility.
At the Ford Willow Run bomber plant riveter Thelma Ross (left) and her partner Ann Sierminski (right) build a B24 bomber in December of 1942. The plant, like hundreds of war factories across the ...
Willow Run Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory near Ypsilanti, Michigan, located at 2625 Tyler Road, in the Willow Run manufacturing complex. Willow Run Assembly consisted of an assembly plant of 2.3 million square feet, another building that was known in later years as "Willow Run Company Vehicle Operations", covering 23,000 ...
That plant and other industrial complexes in and around Detroit produced an output never seen in history. At full production, Willow Run churned out big B-24 Liberator bombers at the incredible ...
Following the war, the bomber plant was sold as surplus property to the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, a partnership of construction and shipbuilding magnate Henry J. Kaiser and Graham-Paige executive Joseph W. Frazer. From 1947 to 1953, Willow Run built Kaiser and Frazer cars for Kaiser-Frazer and its successor Kaiser Motors.
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 ...