Yankee Air Museum burns

[iaflyer]

It's a sad day for Willow Run. The Yankee Air Museum is burning - probably to the ground.

I saw this large plume of smoke while I was driving home. Turned on the radio - they said it was from the museum. I went by the airport, and sure enough - heavy fire showing.

Picture I took

It was from across the airport, about a mile and a half away - and it was a huge fire from there. I have some pictures zoomed in, but it was getting dark and they are blurrier.

iaflyer

 

[T-Gates]

It's a sad day for Willow Run. The Yankee Air Museum is burning - probably to the ground.

I saw this large plume of smoke while I was driving home. Turned on the radio - they said it was from the museum. I went by the airport, and sure enough - heavy fire showing.

Picture I took

It was from across the airport, about a mile and a half away - and it was a huge fire from there. I have some pictures zoomed in, but it was getting dark and they are blurrier.

iaflyer

My god....so much history in that building, extremely sad. That is an incredible fire.... A sad day for the YIP community.

 

[dogman]

Did they get any of the airplanes out?

 

[JohnDoe]

According to the news they got the B-25, C-47, and the B-17 out.

Keep in mind that comes from the media, so who knows what really happened.

 

[iaflyer]

Article in paper

Here is an article from the Detroit Free Press:

http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm713_20041009.htm

The local NBC station just had a nice piece on what the museum had, with nice video of the airplanes flying. The video included cool in-airplane shots from the B-25.

They also said that the those three planes mentioned above made it out. I hope so - they are really pieces of history.

iaflyer

 

[falcon20driver]

That's a shame, I've never been to the museum, I wish I would have taken the time to visit it now.