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Wright-Pat Museum Gets Go-Ahead For Additional Building

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force says work on a new building can go ahead in southwest Ohio. Work on the $35.4 million expansion project was held up after another contractor filed a protest of the award to Turner Construction Co. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reviewed the bid award and rejected the protest. A notice to proceed was issued Friday. The fourth building for the museum near Dayton will allow relocation of the Presidential Aircraft Gallery from a hangar in a restricted-access area of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. A gallery on research and development will also move, and a new space gallery will showcase a space shuttle exhibit. Another gallery will focus on airlift operations. The fourth building is now expected to open in 2016.

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