{"id":4161,"date":"2012-02-16T12:13:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T17:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2018-11-08T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T18:17:20","slug":"new-storage-facility-and-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/fantasy-of-flight\/new-storage-facility-and-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"New Storage Facility and Tour!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently completed another Storage Facility across the street from Fantasy of Flight to compliment our first one and are excited for several reasons. \u00a0First, it will give us some well-needed breathing room and give us the ability to make room in our Maintenance Hangar for the Douglas C-47, which we recently flew over from England and left on display at the EAA Oshkosh Museum. \u00a0Second, we purchased two road-legal trolleys to be able to take Fantasy of Flight patrons over to tour them as part of our normal ticket price!<\/p>\n

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Orignal facility on the left and the new one on the right.<\/p><\/div>\n

Each building is 20,000 square feet!<\/p>\n

There will be an opportunity to not only shuffle some of the airplanes on display in the Fantasy of Flight hangars but also give the restoration shop some long-needed space. \u00a0For the die-hard aviation enthusiasts, they will soon get to see a lot more of the collection!<\/p>\n

For those of you that purchased the Wizard of Orlampa<\/em> DVD we sell in the gift shop, you got to see a brief glimpse of how packed the current building is with airplane parts. \u00a0You have to crawl over stuff to get around as there is very little floor space to walk.<\/p>\n

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Small glimpse of the current facility showing Lockheed 14, B-29, and B-17 fuselages!<\/p><\/div>\n

Pallet Racking has been assembled around the perimeter of the inside and my guys have started moving airplanes over from Fantasy of Flight. \u00a0The now disassembled AT-11, that had been stored in the Maintenance Hangar, became the first tenant. \u00a0Soon we will begin thinning out the first building and filling the new building, and in a manner that will allow our patrons, and my guys, to actually get to everything!<\/p>\n

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New building with Pallet Racking around the perimeter, AT-11 in the distance, and our Gas Balloon Gondola hanging from ceiling!<\/p><\/div>\n

Since most people in the aviation world are aware that the National Air & Space Museum has their off-site\u00a0Silver Hill <\/em>Storage Facility in Maryland, I’ve decided to call ours the Golden Hill <\/em>Storage Facility!\u00a0\u00a0Now I’ll never admit to it, but there might<\/em> be a subtle innuendo there!<\/p>\n

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Golden Hill Express!<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m not going to make any predictions as to exactly when we’ll be open for business, as there is a LOT of work to do. \u00a0Give us about three months and we’ll have a better idea. \u00a0One thing is for sure . . . when we do open for business it will be posted on my blog!<\/p>\n

Kermit<\/p>\n

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