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National Museum Of The U.S. Air Force To Open New Hangar June 8

WYSO | By Lewis Wallace
Published January 14, 2016 at 7:17 AM EST
The plan for the fourth building at the Air Force Museum was announced in 2014.
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
The plan for the fourth building at the Air Force Museum was announced in 2014.
The plan for the fourth building at the Air Force Museum was announced in 2014.
Credit National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
The plan for the fourth building at the Air Force Museum was announced in 2014.

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force has announced its new hangar will be opening on June 8, 2016.

The hangar, which cost almost $41 million, will house the museum’s Air Force One and an XB-70 Valkyrie, allowing visitors to see these planes without taking a shuttle. Sections of the new building will also be dedicated to space travel, research and education.

According to a press release from the museum, the privately-funded project has been under construction for more than a year and new displays are being moved in now.

 

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Lewis Wallace
Lewis Wallace comes to WYSO from the Pritzker Journalism Fellowship at WBEZ in Chicago, where he reported on the environment, technology, science and economics. Prior to going down the public radio rabbit hole, he was a community organizer and producer for a multimedia project about youth and policing in Chicago. Originally from Ann Arbor, Mich., Lewis spent many years as a freelance writer, anti-oppression trainer, barista and sex educator in Chicago and in Oakland. He holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Northwestern University, and he has expanded his journalism training through the 2013 Metcalf Fellowship for Environmental Journalism and the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources.
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