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The Yankee War Museum in Michigan is one of only a few places where you can see a flyable Yankee Warrior, a B-25 Mitchell twin-engined medium bomber as pictured in this copyrighted Sept. 8, 2007 photo taken by Dustin M. Ramsey at Ohio's Wood County Airport. The Yankee Warrior in the Yankee War Museum's collection is the veteran of eight combat missions over Italy.

Fire-ravaged Yankee Air Museum plans reopening

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson

The Yankee War Museum in Michigan is one of only a few places where you can see a flyable Yankee Warrior, a B-25 Mitchell twin-engined medium bomber as pictured in this copyrighted Sept. 8, 2007 photo taken by Dustin M. Ramsey at Ohio's Wood County Airport. The Yankee Warrior in the Yankee War Museum's collection is the veteran of eight combat missions over Italy.
The Yankee War Museum in Michigan is one of only a few places where you can see a flyable Yankee Warrior, a B-25 Mitchell twin-engined medium bomber as pictured in this copyrighted Sept. 8, 2007 photo taken by Dustin M. Ramsey at Ohio’s Wood County Airport. The Yankee Warrior in the Yankee War Museum’s collection is the veteran of eight combat missions over Italy.
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) – The fire-ravaged Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport plans to reopen next month.

The museum says in a statement on its website that its new Collections & Exhibit Building will open Oct. 9 with an Inaugural Gala. That’s six years to the date after a fire at the hangar housing the museum.

Most of the museum’s collection survived the 2004 fire. Eight aircraft and thousands of artifacts were destroyed in the blaze along with tools, spare parts, office equipment and displays.

Other reopening events are planned for Oct. 10 at the airport in Wayne County’s Van Buren Township.

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