Sunday, February 16, 2014

Air Force One Museum looking for landing spot

By Steve Jones



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MYRTLE BEACH — An attempt to locate an Air Force Once Museum in Horry County had a second touchdown in Myrtle Beach recently, but if its reception here is like what it had in other cities, you probably don't want to buy tickets just yet.

According to various news reports, the museum didn't find the right formula or a home in Las Vegas; Charlotte; Fayetteville, N.C.; Wilmington, N.C., or Chicago before it found its way to the administration committee meeting of the Horry County Council earlier this week.

No news reports could be found for its touch-and-gos in Las Vegas, Charlotte, Fayetteville or Chicago, but it apparently shunned Wilmington just as the North Carolina Department of Transportation said it wouldn't donate 35 acres for the museum, but it would sell the land. It is unclear why museum officials opted not to build in Wilmington.

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http://www.heraldonline.com/2014/02/15/5682503/air-force-one-museum-looking-for.html#storylink=cpy






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