Aces Museum Going To Seattle

Mon., Dec. 11, 2000

The American Fighter Aces Association is taking its plans for a military flight museum from San Antonio to Seattle, where it will be housed in an addition to the Seattle Museum of Flight.

“It is a great city, but it really is not a military city any more,” 77-year-old retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Frank Gailer, the group’s past president, told the San Antonio Express-News in Sunday’s editions. “It shouldn’t be called `Military City USA’ in that sense.”

Exhibits were to feature some of the world’s greatest fliers, with one display recreating a field briefing in China attended by local Flying Tigers legend David Lee “Tex” Hill, who racked up 18 kills in World War II.

The move comes three months after the aces voted 29-19 at their annual convention in Reno, Nev., to move the headquarters and artifacts to the Seattle Museum of Flight.

The museum plans to build a 200,000-square-foot addition housing a variety of military planes.

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