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Liberty Aviation Museum
The museum

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Liberty Aviation Museum
The flag is raised for the first time at the ribbon-cutting

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Liberty Aviation Museum
In the museum's hangar with the Ford Tri-motor

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Liberty Aviation Museum
In the museum hangar, with the Ford Tri-motor

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Liberty Aviation Museum
Checking out the construction of a wing spar

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Liberty Aviation Museum

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Liberty Aviation Museum
Inside the Ford Tri-motor project

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Liberty Aviation Museum
A look at the Ford Tri-motor fuselage, so far

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Liberty Aviation Museum
Soon to be a cockpit. The Ford logo already in place

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Liberty Aviation Museum
A real sign, rescued from the community for this museum

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Liberty Aviation Museum

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Liberty Aviation Museum
Close to the Ford's fuselage

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Liberty Aviation Museum
L to R: Don Heinzerling and daughter Dena Lucas, of the restoration crew. Ken Benjamin, Chairman of the Tri-Motor Heritage Foundation. Gil Stuber, member of the Tri-Motor Restoration crew. William Shannon, Treasurer of the local EAP.

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Liberty Aviation Museum
One of the wrecked wings of the Tri-motor

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Liberty Aviation Museum
The rear of the museum recreates an Island Airlines hangar

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Liberty Aviation Museum

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Liberty Aviation Museum

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Liberty Aviation Museum

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Liberty Aviation Museum
The Tin Good Diner

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Liberty Aviation Museum
The Tin Goose Diner: the corner booth with a view of the end of the PCW runway

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Liberty Aviation Museum
"Rosie the Riveter" in the Tin Goose Diner

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Liberty Aviation Museum
Military men check out a big gun

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Liberty Aviation Museum
A woman in her old military uniform poses by a motorcycle and sidecar

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Liberty Aviation Museum

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Liberty Aviation Museum

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Liberty Aviation Museum
A special visitor lands next to the museum

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Liberty Aviation Museum
A B-17 dropped by for the celebration

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The museum's mailbox. OF COURSE.

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The Opening of the Liberty Aviation Museum

At PCW Erie-Ottawa Airport in Port Clinton, Ohio. Opened Friday, July 20, 2012.

July 23, 2012 06:41:42 PM EST

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