Great news from the University of
Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks. The Curtiss JN-4D “Jenny” Aircraft flown
by Carl Ben Eielson in 1923, one of the largest items in the museum’s history
collections, is again on display at the Fairbanks International Airport. More
than thirty volunteers from the local chapter of the Experimental Aircraft
Association helped with the restoration. The EAA, officials from the Fairbanks
International Airport, and Davis Construction, the original contractor for the
recent expansion at FAI, worked together to complete the installation at the
end of October.
Angie Linn, the museum’s Ethnology
and History collections manager, notes the aircraft connects people to
Fairbanks’s early history. Watch for a dedication ceremony to take place at the
airport in the new year.
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