From the Guardian:

DETROIT (AP) - A $26 million museum honoring the Tuskegee Airmen is planned for a renovated hangar at Detroit’s airport, an organizer said Friday.

Full’scale models of fighter planes and bombers the all-black group used during World War II, along with old uniforms, photos and other items already housed in a smaller museum, will be included, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Lucius Theus said.

Completion is still several years away, said Theus, 85, one of a handful of the original Airmen to become generals. Money for the 35,000’square-foot museum will be raised through a national campaign, special events and public and private donations. About $200,000 has been raised so far.

Trained in Tuskegee, Ala., the Airmen flew in tens of thousands of combat missions as the first group of black fighter pilots allowed into the U.S. Army Air Corps. The late former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young was among the group’s ranks.

The surviving members received the Congressional Gold Medal last month from President Bush.