Even in the modern age it is hard to understand how the airplanes of the Second World War managed to operate so greatly, in extreme combat conditions and even heavily damaged. What the engineers of ...

An FM-2 Wildcat that sat at the bottom of Lake Michigan for nearly seven decades was brought to the surface on Friday as the nation marked the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A WWII plane may never have another date with the sky again, but that doesn't mean it can't look pretty on land. After years of restoration, the FM-2 Wildcat is almost as good as ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — One FM-2 Wildcat fighter plane that currently resides at Air Zoo has seen better days. The aircraft has spent the past nearly 80 years either at the bottom of Lake Michigan ...

PORTAGE, Mich. (WOOD) — Crews at the Air Zoo in Portage are at work fixing up an FM-2 Wildcat, one of the U.S. Navy’s most successful fighter planes for its early role in the Pacific theater during ...

FILE – Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum in Portage. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) Air Zoo History is coming to life at the Air Zoo in Portage. For a decade, restoration teams at the Air Zoo have been ...

The USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum finally unveiled its fully restored FM-2 Wildcat after five years of work. USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum The USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum had a ...

UPDATE May, 2024 (WOOD) — The FM-2 Wildcat restored by the Air Zoo will be heading to the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, Massachusetts for permanent display. PORTAGE, Mich. (WOOD) — Crews at the ...