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KC - Based Aviation Firm to Add to Its Fleet
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Description
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A Kansas City based aviation company called Executive AirShare will be adding seven new business jets to its fleet. The company offers fractional ownership in aircraft to businesses and wealthy individuals and currently has 12 planes in its fleet. The new jet called Embraer Phenom 100 will be added in 2010. This company is located at Wheeler Downtown Airport. Includes an image of the new airplane.
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Date
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2007-05-24
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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KC Seeks New Place to Display Old Plane
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Description
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Article reports the possibility of Union Station becoming the permanent indoor home of a 1930 American Eaglet two-seater airplane, originally manufactured at the Fairfax Airport. The Eaglet is described by one expert in the article as the "Model-T of aviation."
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Date
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2006-12-25
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Connie Lovers Seek Donations
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Description
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Article tells about Robert Cohn who is donating his extensive collection of airline, particularly TWA, memorabilia to help raise money for repairing the disabled Connie at the Airline History Museum.
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Date
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2005-09-04
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Plane's Devotees In a Tailspin
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Description
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The "Connie" airplane, a Lockheed Constellation located at the Wheeler Downtown Airport and part of the Airline History Museum can no longer fly. It was the last one in the United States that could fly. During a routine maintenance check on the ground, "cylinders in the No. 2 engine failed, spewing gallons of oil and fire that 'stuck like napalm' to the plane's metal skin, disfiguring the plane". It will cost more than $120,000 to rebuild the engine and finding the money may be a problem.
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Date
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2005-08-13
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Postcards of Historic Northeast
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Description
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This week's featured postcard is of TWA and features the Constellation airplane. It reads "Providing the very finest in airline service between major cities from coast to coast, this newest Constellation, the TWA Super-G, is the largest, most advanced, most luxurious airline in the skies."
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Date
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2005-08-24
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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A Jumbo Crowd-Pleaser Arrives
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Description
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The Airline History Museum added a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar to its aircraft on display on January 29, 2010. The jumbo jet was headed for the scrap heap until an Arizona man donated the $100,000 that allowed the museum to purchase it. It was flown to Kansas City from New Mexico.
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Date
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2010-01-31
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Success on the Fly
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Description
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Article profiles Robert Baslee and his company Airdrome Aeroplanes, a world leader in producing replica WWI aircraft. Baslee has designed and manufactured over 60 planes in this Holden, Missouri, workshop, which are sold primarily to vintage airplane enthusiasts and movie studios. Two of his planes will be featured in a biographical film about Amelia Earhart titled "Amelia."
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Date
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2009-10-18
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
