Historic Aircraft Restoration Project
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  Location within New York | |
| Established | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Location | New York, New York |
| Coordinates | 40°35′42″N 73°52′59″W / 40.595°N 73.883°W |
| Type | Aviation museum |
| Founder | Arnie Migliaccio |
| Website | www |
The Historic Aircraft Restoration Project is an aviation museum located in Hangar B at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, New York.
In 1996, Arnie Migliaccio suggested the creation of a group of volunteers, working as part of the National Park Service's Volunteers-In-Parks program, to restore aircraft on Floyd Bennett Field. The project began two years later in Hangar B on the east side of the airport and the volunteers eventually became known as "angels".[1][2][3]
A number of the project's aircraft were previously on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.[4][5][6]
In May 2002, the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation's KC-97 arrived at the project's hangar.[7] The project provided space to the foundation as they restored the aircraft. After 15 years of work, the airplane departed the airport in November 2017.[8]
The project's volunteers were locked out of the hangar in 2019, allegedly due to a dispute over racial discrimination by another volunteer.[9]
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