The Tuskegee Airmen are launching a fund-raising campaign that asks each and every African-American for an $8 donation towards the development of an expanded permanent facility for a museum dedicated to their story.
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The campaign committee, which represents the fewer than 400 surviving
airmen, has signed a 50-year lease with the Coleman A. Young Airport to
house the museum there, Smith said. It would replace the small but
well-maintained museum at Historic Ft. Wayne.
Plans for the new museum include a three-story center that would house
photos, books, a virtual theater, an aviation history exhibit, flight
simulators, three classrooms and, most important, replicas of 10 planes
the airmen flew.
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