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Yankee Air Museum to Change its Name
According to an article in the Detroit News, the Yankee Air Museum is set to update its name to reflect its new position. The museum, now in its fourth decade, has accomplished some major goals lately,...
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Yankee Air Museum Takes Ownership of Willow Run Plant
B-24s under construction at Ford Motor’s Willow Run plant. After several years of effort, the Yankee Air Museum now officially owns the remaining 144,000 square foot section of the old Ford Bomber...
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The Warning Star Rescue Project
The US Navy EC-121 “Warning Star” captured in 2015 at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum. By Austin Hancock Belleville, MI – The Yankee Air Force/Museum, known for operating a gorgeous outfit of WWII...
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EC-121 “Warning Star” Moving to the Yankee Air Museum
(photo by Jack Weber) As previously reported HERE by WarbirdsNews, the Yankee Air Museum has launched the “The Warning Star Rescue Project” to save a Lockheed EC-121K Warning Star, and move it to their...
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Yankee Air Museum’s C-47 Honors the 1st Air Commando Group
As WarbirdsNews reported a couple of weeks ago, Kalitta Air has been refurbishing the exterior of the Yankee Air Museum’s C-47 Skytrain at their maintenance facility in Oscoda, Michigan. Kalitta began...
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Yankee Air Museum’s C-47 Becomes “Hairless Joe”
As WarbirdsNews readers will remember, a few weeks ago, the Yankee Air Museum unveiled their freshly refinished Douglas C-47D Skytrain 44-76716. The aircraft had – for decades – worn a polished metal...
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Restoring the Yankee Air Museum’s Boeing B-52D Stratofortress
Yankee Air Museum’s B-52 by Barry Levine The Yankee Air Museum in Belleville, Michigan has a wide range of aircraft in its collection – including a Boeing B-52D Stratofortress on permanent loan from...
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Restoring a Republic F-84F Thunderstreak at the Yankee Air Museum
The Yankee Air Museum’s Republic F-84F Thunderstreak Restoration by Barry Levine The Yankee Air Museum has recently completed the restoration of their Republic F-84F-35-GK Thunderstreak. The 2nd...
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Yankee Air Museum Seeks Information on B-24J Known as Michigan
April 22, 2019— The Yankee Air Museum in Ypsilanti, Michigan is actively seeking first person accounts from airmen whom served on a B-24 Liberator bomber nicknamed Michigan which flew in the Pacific...
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Yankee Air Museum Photoshoot
by Tom Pawlesh With the airshow season pretty much cancelled this year due to COVID-19, finding an aviation event to get excited about has been next to impossible. The weekend of August 29-30, 2020...
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