Articles tagged: Yankee Air Museum
Honor veterans at the Yankee Air Museum
Posted: May 23, 2013The Yankee Air Museum will be open to the public on Monday to honor those veterans who put their life on the line for our country. The event will include a pancake breakfast, which is ... Read more »
Yankee Air Museum kicks off fundraising for Willow Run bomber plant purchase
Posted: May 17, 2013Yankee Air Museum and the Michigan Aerospace Foundation held a fund-raising kickoff event Thursday evening at Willow Run Airport for its effort to raise funds to buy approximately 150,000 square feet of for former the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Read more »
Yankee Air Museum plan could save part of Willow Run bomber plant from wrecking ball
Posted: Apr 23, 2013The Yankee Air Museum's effort to move to the former Willow Run bomber plant could save part of the factory that turned out B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II from the wrecking ball. Read more »
Willow Run bomber plant: Yankee Air Museum seeks $6M in move
Posted: Apr 23, 2013The Yankee Air Museum is kicking off a $6 million campaign to make its home at a former facility that built B-24 bombers during World War II. Read more »
Ypsilanti Housing Commission executive director to receive $85K salary
Posted: Mar 15, 2013The Ypsilanti Housing Commission's new executive director will receive an $85,000 salary, as he moves the commission toward financial solvency. Read more »
Meet retired astronaut Jack Lousma at the Yankee Air Museum's 'Launchpad Party'
Posted: Feb 06, 2013If you think the Yankee Air Museum focuses only on vehicles that fly in the stratosphere, you are wrong. It's like you don't even know them. So you'll want to take some time to visit ... Read more »
Observer & Eccentric: Yankee Air Museum seeking uniforms from Iraq, Afghanistan veterans
Posted: Dec 28, 2012A Chelsea-area man has been working to unpack and organize donations of military effects at the Yankee Air Museum following a 2004 fire that destroyed much of its previous artifacts, the Observer & Eccentric reported. Read more »
Man gets Yankee Award for 'Flying Fortress' effort
Posted: Nov 10, 2012This story has been removed from our site after 30 days as required by our digital use agreement with the Associated Press. Read more »
With slideshow: Spirits soar as Yankee Air Museum celebrates grand reopening six years after devastating fire
Posted: Oct 11, 2010Korean War veteran Lee Bassett remembers well how he felt six years ago, after a fast-burning fire destroyed the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti Township. “With all the time I spent ... Read more »
Associated Press: Ex-WWII pilot still flying high courtesy of Ypsilanti's Yankee Air Museum
Posted: Dec 07, 2009Flying over the snowcapped Himalayas and sweltering Asian jungles as a pilot in World War II was "no big deal" for Norman Allen. But the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medals and two Battle Stars the ... Read more »
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