The State - News from April 2, 1989
A lawsuit has been filed over the Fresno Metropolitan Museum’s purchase of the Spirit of Fresno, a vintage aircraft and a sister ship to Charles A. Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis. Ty Sundstrom restored the plane and is charging in the suit that the museum owes him $110,000 of a $150,000 purchase price for the aircraft. In 1980, Sundstrom retrieved the plane from a muddy cow pasture near Paso Robles, where it had remained since a crash in 1932. Sundstrom spent four years restoring the plane at Fresno Air Terminal, where it is now kept. Sundstrom says that if the museum does not pay him for the plane, then it should give it back.
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