"Richard Riley" > wrote in message ...
>
> VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Fire swept through an aviation museum
> hangar that housed vintage aircraft, destroying the building and the
> planes inside.
>
> No injures were reported in the fire Saturday at the Yankee Air Museum
> at Willow Run Airport, officials said. Several historic planes that
> were parked outside the hangar were unscathed.
>
> The cause of the fire at the airport 25 miles west of Detroit was not
> known.
>
> A spokesman for the Wayne County Airport Authority, which owns and
> operates the airport, did not immediately return a telephone message.
>
> The Yankee Air Museum includes functioning historic aircraft, fixed
> displays and historic artifacts, according to the its Web site. Its
> centerpiece was the 1941 hangar that burned Saturday night, which was
> part of a plant built by Henry Ford to produce World War II bombers on
> assembly lines like those used at his automotive factories.

I heard this last night; the video looked bad...Has anyone heard what was lost? The story I heard said that the WWII
birds were outside and safe, but that sounds unlikely.

"Blueskies" > wrote in message >...
> "Richard Riley" > wrote in message ...
> >
> > VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Fire swept through an aviation museum
> > hangar that housed vintage aircraft, destroying the building and the
> > planes inside.
> >
> > No injures were reported in the fire Saturday at the Yankee Air Museum
> > at Willow Run Airport, officials said. Several historic planes that
> > were parked outside the hangar were unscathed.
> >
> > The cause of the fire at the airport 25 miles west of Detroit was not
> > known.
> >
> > A spokesman for the Wayne County Airport Authority, which owns and
> > operates the airport, did not immediately return a telephone message.
> >
> > The Yankee Air Museum includes functioning historic aircraft, fixed
> > displays and historic artifacts, according to the its Web site. Its
> > centerpiece was the 1941 hangar that burned Saturday night, which was
> > part of a plant built by Henry Ford to produce World War II bombers on
> > assembly lines like those used at his automotive factories.
>
> I heard this last night; the video looked bad...Has anyone heard what was lost? The story I heard said that the WWII
> birds were outside and safe, but that sounds unlikely.

Gone:

C-60 Lodestar
WACO Glider
F-105B
YOV-10
L-39 Albatross
+ 2 small homebuilts

"Blueskies" > wrote in message >...
> "Richard Riley" > wrote in message ...
> >
> > VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Fire swept through an aviation museum
> > hangar that housed vintage aircraft, destroying the building and the
> > planes inside.
> >
> > No injures were reported in the fire Saturday at the Yankee Air Museum
> > at Willow Run Airport, officials said. Several historic planes that
> > were parked outside the hangar were unscathed.
> >
> > The cause of the fire at the airport 25 miles west of Detroit was not
> > known.
> >
> > A spokesman for the Wayne County Airport Authority, which owns and
> > operates the airport, did not immediately return a telephone message.
> >
> > The Yankee Air Museum includes functioning historic aircraft, fixed
> > displays and historic artifacts, according to the its Web site. Its
> > centerpiece was the 1941 hangar that burned Saturday night, which was
> > part of a plant built by Henry Ford to produce World War II bombers on
> > assembly lines like those used at his automotive factories.
>
> I heard this last night; the video looked bad...Has anyone heard what was lost? The story I heard said that the WWII
> birds were outside and safe, but that sounds unlikely.

More info on our website:
http://www.yankeeairmuseum.org/