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The 2024 Thunder over Michigan Air Show will return to Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti on Saturday and Sunday. The annual event is presented by the Wayne County Airport Authority, with a variety ...
Willow Run, also known as Air Force Plant 31, was a manufacturing complex in Michigan, United States, located between Ypsilanti Township and Belleville, built by the Ford Motor Company to manufacture aircraft, especially the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber. [1]
The Michigan Flight Museum, formerly known as the Yankee Air Museum, is an aviation museum located at Willow Run Airport in Van Buren Township, Michigan. The museum has a small fleet of flying aircraft and a collection of static display aircraft outdoors.
2006 USGS photo. Willow Run Airport covers 2,392 acres (968 ha) and has two runways, a continuously staffed FAA control tower, and US Customs operations. [1] It is one of two facilities operated by the Wayne County Airport Authority, the other being Detroit Metropolitan Airport, which replaced Willow Run as the major commercial airport for the region starting in 1958.
A pilot and crew member ejected from a vintage jet that crashed at a Michigan air show on Sunday, 13 August. Officials said the pair escaped serious injury and were taken to hospital after a ...
Was: Oscoda Air Force Base (1947-1953) Was: Wurtsmith Air Force Base (1953-1993) Now: Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport (IATA: OSC, ICAO: KOSC) Army Air Force Training Command. Willow Run Airport, Ypsilanti, Michigan; Eastern Technical Training Command 484th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron Now: Public Airport (IATA: YIP, ICAO: KYIP)
In 1951, the United States Air Force exercised a right of return to Willow Run and established Willow Run Air Force Station to the east of the airport runway. On 7 April 1952 the site became operational with the establishment of Headquarters, 30th Air Division at the site, which was designated P-23 by ADC.
Willow Run Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory near Ypsilanti, Michigan, located at 2625 Tyler Road, in the Willow Run manufacturing complex. Willow Run Assembly consisted of an assembly plant of 2.3 million square feet, another building that was known in later years as "Willow Run Company Vehicle Operations", covering 23,000 ...