The Yankee Air Museum was offered a portion of the main plant building for $6,000,000 USD. I am guessing the area in question is the hangar door section of the building which was final assembly in the KF days. They need a new "garage" for maintenance of aircraft and this would make sense.
As for a Kaiser-Frazer museum, at present the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage product in nearby Ypsilanti is about the closest thing to a K-F museum that exists. We can't do anything similar to what is going on at Red Barns (Cadillac/LaSalle museum, Model A Museum, etc) because of short-term and long-term costs. I drew up a business plan for such a facility, which would start out with around 5,000 square foot (with room for expansion) of building. The facility would own its home as well as the cars and items on display. A portfolio account would provide enough money for operating expenses, building fund (repairs and/or expansion over time) and acquisition fund (to buy cars and items that otherwise were not donated). The start-up cost for this 501c3 based operation 100% independent of the KFOCI would be at current economy $27,000,000 US, most of the money going into the portfolio account (approx. $24,000,000) to guarantee operating expenses would be covered).
To put this more in perspective, the Corvette Museum in Bowling KY keeps its doors open and lights on because of a special tourism subsidy from the Commonwealth of KY . Income from admission, gift shop, factory delivery of new Corvettes and other activities is not enough to have the facility pay its own w
