by Khalil Hachem | The Ann Arbor News

Monday January 12, 2009, 2:49 PM

After a fire destroyed the building in 2004, the Yankee Air Museum took up quarters in a large building on the south side of the Willow Run Airport.

Museum officials hoped to stay there until a new facility can be built. But they learned last week they may have to move as early as next month because the Wayne County Airport Authority plans to close the building to save money.

“We’re unhappy about it,” said Frank Ernst, development committee chair with the museum. “We’re disappointed with the decision, and we feel we are taking a huge step backward.”

Airport spokesman Michael Conway said the number of tenants in the aircraft hangar has dwindled, and the authority is losing about $250,000 a year in utility costs for the 191,000-square-foot building.

“We can’t afford to heat it anymore,” Conway said.

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