Yankee Air Museum burns

"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 . com...
"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 . com...
"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/