If you don’t like the swings, hop onto a plane. Pine Park has taken delivery of an airplane, and in the near future, children will be able to actually get to sit inside it.
The 50-year-old single-wing plane with a 25-foot wingspan was dropped off at the Lakewood Historical Society just a few days ago, adding to the collection of the Society which recently moved into the vacant Pine Park building.
Longtime Lakewood resident Bob Kirschner arranged for the plane’s donation, which he received on behalf of the museum from Matt Applegate, the manager at the Lakewood Airport.
The interactive display plane, which has a functional canopy, will soon get rotors and other missing parts so that children and others visiting the museum can get a hands-on experience of a real airplane, TLS has learned.
As earlier reported on TLS, the Historical Society signed a 50 year lease with the Township for the use of Kuser Hall. The Hall is a two-story, 16,000 square-foot classroom building which once was part of the private Newman high school for boys from 1920-1942.
The museum, which had been housed in the Princeton Avenue Building from 2005 – 2009, has a vast collection of Lakewood memorabilia and artifacts.
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Thank you Mr. Kirschner. The kids are going to be so excited!
I think that you meant to write single engine since no plane in the world is single winged.
This is defined as a single or mono winged air frame.
“…will soon get rotors and other missing parts…”
May I ask what is a rotor on an airplane? I know helicopters have rotors but I have never seen one on an airplane.