Wurtsmith Yankee Air Museum is getting ‘Women in Aviation' exhibit

The Oscoda Press reports that the Women in Aviation exibit at the Willow Run Yankee Air Museum has landed at the Wurtsmith Air Museum following the fire that destroyed the historical hanger at Willow Run.:

The Women in Aviation exhibit had been removed from the Willow Run museum about two months prior to the fire that recently claimed a building full of aviation history. The exhibit is owned by a group of Michigan women pilots called the "Ninety-Nines," who made news locally this July when they painted a compass rose on landing strip at the Iosco County Airport.
"Luckily, this exhibit had been removed and packed away before the fire," said Jim McLaughlin, chairman of the local chapter of the Yankee Air Force. "They came to see us last week and said they'd like to bring the ‘Women in Aviation' exhibit here, and we told them that that was great," McLaughlin added.

McLaughlin said that the Michigan chapter of the national group of female aviators called the "Ninety Nines" owns the exhibit and is planning to move the historical items to Oscoda early next month. Local members of the Yankee Air Force would then incorporate the display into their own exhibit about women in aviation.

"We'll take the winter to get it all set up," said McLaughlin, "and then we'll be ready to show it off with the normal spring opening of the museum on Armed Forces Day in May."

"We're still trying to figure out our relationship with the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run," said McLaughlin. "They lost everything but a few airplanes in the fire. At this point, they say they are going to rebuild," he related.

I wrote about the Ninety-Nines back on July 12, 2004 regarding the compass rose mentioned again in this article.