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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Willow Run Airport, Ypsilanti, Michigan; Eastern Technical Training Command 484th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron Now: Public Airport (IATA: YIP, ICAO: KYIP) Also home of the Yankee Air Museum. Air Transport Command. Romulus AAF, Detroit; 3d Ferrying Group 345th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron Joint Use USAAF/Civil Airport
He ground grain all over Michigan and worked as a riveter at the Willow Run Bomber Plant. He owned Ida’s Miller Insurance Agency. For 36 years he was a construction foreman for Gratton ...
6.7 Mustangs built at plant, production moved to AutoAlliance plant in Flat Rock, Mich. (started 09-07-2004). Plant originally built to build Eagle boats called submarine chasers. Ford Model A, Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar were also built at plant Ford Motor Company Willow Run Plant Ypsilanti, Michigan: B-24 Liberator Aircraft World War II