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Yankee Air Museum Getting Started Request Member Access Home Assets Aircraft (4) Pictures Museum Shots Electrical Crew B-17 G 'Yankee Lady' B-25 D 'Yankee Warrior' C-47 'Yankee Doodle' (NEW) V-77 Stinson Reliant FIRE: Before FIRE: During FIRE: After FIRE: Lost Air Shows Visiting Aircraft Printable Pictures Links & Docs Electrical Crew B-17 Links Stinson Links Warbird Links LocalHangar.com You are Visitor # 36089   Volunteer Crew & Photo Archive Website for B-17 "Yankee Lady", C-47 "Yankee Doodle Dandy", & B-25 "Yankee Warrior"   Top Pics: Before & After Fire,  Our Warbirds      Public Site: YankeeAirMuseum.org www.localhangar.com/yankeeairmuseum   |   mark@LocalHangar.com    2401 A Street Belleville, MI 48111   |   734-483-4030   |   Airport: WILLOW RUN(YIP) Info Wx Radar Urgent Messages Founding Member Bill Wier - Passes On All at the Yankee Air Museum were saddened at the loss of Bill Wier on October 11, 2006.  Having spent 35 years in commercial aviation, Bill was one of the museums founding members as well as a current board member.  He will be particularly missed by those of us on the Electrical Crew where he spent most of his time (see Pictures) The family has asked any memorials be forwarded to: Yankee Air Museum Recovery Fund PO Box 590 Belleville, MI  48112-0590 Updated: Oct 28th, 2006    Expires: Never More... General News 2006 Flying Season Finished - We Need Your Pictures! The museums warbirds traveled the country again this season - and we'd love to see pictures of our birds out there around the country!! If you have any pictures of our B-17, B-25, or C-47 at an airshow outside of Michigan please send them to us at the email address above so that we can post them here for all to see!  Thanks Meanwhile, be sure to check out each aircrafts folder on the left bar through out the season for more pictures.  Here are a couple of quick links for the latest pics of the C-47 on a practice day: C-47 Runup   Take-off/Landing Practice Updated: Oct 28th, 2006    Expires: Never More... C-47 Fabric Covering Class This past Winter was also time to learn new skills and/or volunteer in Bill Rodgers fabric covering class which between December-March re-covered the left aileron of the musuems C-47 "Yankee Doodle Dandy".  Be sure to check out the great work of a dozen plus members this year!!  Pictures of the effort are in the Museum Shots photo album:  Wk 1 12/3/05, Wk 2 12/10/05, Wk 3 12/17/05, Wk 4 1/7/06, Wk 5 1/14/06, Wk 6 1/21/06, Wk 8 2/04/06, Wk 9 2/11/06, Wk 10 2/18/06 Updated: Oct 28th, 2006    Expires: Never   B-17 'Yankee Lady' Large Photographs & Prints There have been various requests for larger & printable quality pictures particularly of "Yankee Lady".  There are numerous shots available that are taken at 8MB resolution.  These shots make excellent photo prints even up to 24x36"!   The full size files of each are available upon request, which can then be taken to your local store for digital printing.  Simply contact the email above with the shot numbers you want.  Check out the Large Prints and the rest of the B-17 pictures Updated: Oct 28th, 2006    Expires: Never   B-17 & B-25 Guests Flights & Rides! FLight EXperiences (FLEX Rides) are scheduled on Wednesday evenings from April thru October, Departing from the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport (YIP).  Reservations are required and each seat is $400.00. Click 'More' for info! Updated: Oct 28th, 2006    Expires: Never More... FIRE DESTROYS YANKEE AIR MUSEUM - Updates & Pictures NEXT CHAPTER - The museum is moving forward and with that in mind the details of what happened in the fire that destroyed us have been moved to a seperate page.  Click 'More' to see all of details, links, and pictures. Updated: Oct 28th, 2006    Expires: Never More...