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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 ...
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Deaborn, greets U-M students at Willow Run Airport on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, as they await the arrival of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic candidate for vice ...
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.
The airfield, owned by the Wayne County Airport Authority since 2004, continues to operate as the Willow Run Airport and is primarily used for cargo and general aviation flights. The Yankee Air Museum resides on the airport grounds, occupying as of April 2013 a 47,000-square-foot (4,400 m 2 ) hangar and other properties.
USA Jet Airlines is an American cargo airline with its headquarters on the grounds of Willow Run Airport, and in Van Buren Township, Michigan. [2] [3] USA Jet operates on-demand air charter freight, and formerly passenger flights out of Willow Run Airport. [4] USA Jet Airlines is a division of Ascent Global Logistics (formerly Active Aero Group).
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]
Ameristar Charters Flight 9363 was a charter flight from Willow Run Airport to Washington Dulles Airport on March 8, 2017, which rejected takeoff and overran the runway.The crash was caused by a jammed elevator, which was damaged by high winds the day before the crash.
On the night of October 9, 2004, the Yankee Air Museum's hangar on the northeast side of Willow Run Airport (KYIP) burned down. [7] The B-17, B-25 and C-47 were saved through heroic efforts by museum volunteers. The Stinson [clarification needed] was at another hangar.