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John Travolta helped Kansas City's Airline History Museum take off – but a con man almost took it down 

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Up In the Air: Airline History Museum

Up In the Air: Airline History Museum

A con man almost took down a John Travolta-backed museum dedicated to aviation here in Kansas City. David Martin has the story in this week's Pitch. Photographer Forest Michael took pictures at the museum in a hangar at Kansas City's downtown airport.

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At the DC-3, Charles explains that the fuselage arrived in Kansas City on the bed of a truck that set out from Roswell, New Mexico. The museum has one engine and hopes to buy another. In fact, not long ago, tour guides were telling visitors that the DC-3 might be ready to fly in a month or two.

"Now we don't ever say numbers," Charles says, "because things keep popping up."

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