Time running out for Yankee Air Museum

Ypsilanti— The great warplane relics of America’s past are treasures to Ray Hunter, who would like to see the Yankee Air Force Museum find a new home in a historic airport hangar.

The 76-year-old Air Force veteran, who flew rescue helicopter missions in Vietnam, is one of the many former service members who hope the museum can raise nearly $5 million to save and renovate part of the former Willow Run bomber plant building into its new home on the grounds of the Willow Run Airport.

“The museum will go on,” he said. “We’re in a facility now. We’d rather be all under one roof because we want the public to be able to look at these airplanes that we are so proud of.”...