Vintage Boeing to Be Restored After Crash
Boeing Co., the world’s largest aircraft maker, said it would restore a 60-year-old, four-propeller plane that crashed in March in Seattle’s Elliott Bay.
The Boeing 307 Stratoliner, once owned by Haitian dictator Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, suffered only “secondary structural damage” when Boeing pilots splashed down near Seattle’s port after reporting engine problems.
The flight was to be the plane’s final test before a cross-country trip to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Volunteers spent six years restoring the plane, the last Stratoliner of 10 built.
A team of 70 Boeing employees and volunteers will clean, repair and rebuild parts of the plane in a restoration expected to take a year, the company said.
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