Yankee Air Museum

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The Yankee Air Museum, housed in a hangar at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan, is a museum dedicated to preserving and displaying historic aircraft and other artifacts pertaining to aviation history. The Museum is also known as Yankee Air Force Inc. In the Museum's collection are several flyable aircraft. They include:

B-17G Yankee Lady
B-25D Yankee Warrior
C-47 Yankee Doodle Dandy
V-77 Stinson Reliant

On the night of October 9, 2004, the Yankee Air Museum's hangar burned down. Only the B-17, B-25 and C-47 were saved. Everything else inside the hangar was destroyed, including an OV-10a Bronco, Waco CG-4A Glider, F-105, L39, artifacts, spare parts, tools, and the Museum's library. There are plans in place to rebuild.

The Museum also contains a number of retired aircraft, a few of which may be flyable in the future. These aircraft include: B-52D Stratofortress, UH-1P Huey, DC-6, F-84F, RF-84K, F-101B, TF-102, T-33B, RB-57A, A-7 Corsair, F-4C, and Armstrong-Whitworth – Argosy