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The Yankee Air Museum opened on the airport grounds in 1981. A fire in October 2004 destroyed the museum's building and most of its artifacts. The static display aircraft, including a B-52 Stratofortress and other aircraft too large for display inside the hangar, were undamaged. In 2005 the museum moved to the other side of the airport, where ...
After extending the fundraising deadline to Oct. 1, and then to Nov. 1, 2013, on October 26, 2013, RACER Trust and the Yankee Air Museum again reached a new, and final, deadline extension agreement. The final deadline to raise the funds necessary to preserve a portion of the Willow Run plant for the Yankee Air Museum was May 1, 2014. [16]
152881 – One of the original prototype YOV-10As was on display at the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport near Ypsilanti, Michigan. It had been fully restored by a former OV-10 crew chief. The aircraft was destroyed along with several other museum aircraft in a fire on 9 October 2004. [110]
11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday at Yankee Air Museum in Belleville. Admission to the museum is $13 for adults and $10 for children. Other Open Cockpit Days in 2024 are scheduled for May 19, Aug. 25 and Oct. 20.
Crews have been spraying water on the building from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and keeping a fire watch overnight. Over nearly eight days, a little over 1 million gallons of water were sprayed on the pile ...
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. [42] For a period of time before the eventual demolition of Willow Run Assembly, portions were used as a warehouse, about a quarter of which was leased by GM as a facility for parts distribution. [46]
Yankee Lady is a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress owned by a private collector, previously owned by the Yankee Air Museum. Originally delivered to the U.S military in 1945, the plane did not see combat action; it was used by the United States Coast Guard for over a decade. Purchased by the Yankee Air Museum in 1986, it was restored to a World War II ...
Footage captures an eerie haze over Yankee Stadium in New York, as smoke from Canadian wildfires set off health alerts in the city. Authorities in New York, Toronto and Ottawa on Tuesday 6 June ...