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  1. 06-09-2024, 01:19 PM #1
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    Submerged for 68 years in Lake Michigan

    ...and now restored.

    KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — One FM-2 Wildcat fighter plane that currently resides at Air Zoo has seen better days.

    The aircraft has spent the past nearly 80 years either at the bottom of Lake Michigan or in the museum’s workshop in Kalamazoo. But after all of this time, it’s nearly back to its former glory.

    Air Zoo restoration workers and volunteers have spent more than a decade cleaning, rebuilding and replacing parts of the plane which cost an estimated $700,000. There has been an estimated 50,000 hours of work that has been put into the project since Air Zoo first took on the plane back in 2013.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    I saw that the other day...Preservation of history is always cool......Ben
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    "When we preserve the past, we honor our heritage and retain valuable knowledge for future generations."
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    Besides, I think the Air Zoo is uber

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