ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) – The fuselage of an airplane similar to one flown by Amelia Earhart when she disappeared in 1937 is being trucked this week from California to Earhart’s hometown in eastern Kansas.

The fuselage of a 1935 Lockheed Electra L-10E, outfitted exactly like the one Earhart used when she tried to fly around the world, has begun a five-day journey to Atchison, Kansas, where Earhart was born. It is expected to arrive on Friday.

The Wichita Eagle reports the airplane will be put on permanent display in a hanger the Amelia Earhart Foundation plans to build as a museum commemorating the female aviator’s final flight. The Electra’s wings, which span nearly 60 feet, and other parts arrived in Atchison last month.

Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared in their Electra in July 1937 while flying from New Guinea to Howland Island in the South Pacific in her around-the-world attempt.

The plane was acquired from Grace McGuire, a pilot who spent three decades restoring it. McGuire got the plane from a defunct museum in Orlando, Florida.

Foundation director Karen Seaberg said enough money has been raised to build a hangar shell for the plane at the Amelia Earhart Airport in Atchison. Seaberg said that more money will have to be raised to transform the hangar into a museum that will showcase other artifacts, including Lockheed Electra L-10A, modified to a Model E cockpit that visitors will be able to sit in.

The foundation estimates it will cost $500,000 to complete the museum.

McGuire had intended to restore the plane so it was airworthy and then complete Earhart’s original 29,000-mile flight before multiple sclerosis forced her to cancel her plans.

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