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Delta Air Lines reopens museum after renovations

By Jeff Martin
Published June 17, 2014 9:35pm ET
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Delta Air Lines reopens museum after renovations
A Boeing 767 airplane sits on display at the grand opening of the new Delta Flight Museum, Tuesday, June 17, 2014, in Atlanta. Delta Air Lines is re-opening a museum at its Atlanta headquarters after extensive renovations in hopes of luring tourists to the company's original aircraft maintenance hangars on the north edge of the world's busiest airport. The 68,000-square-foot museum, housed in hangers that date to the 1940s, traces Delta's history from crop-dusting and air mail service to its first passenger flight from Dallas to Jackson, Mississippi, on June 17, 1929. (AP Photo/David Goldman) | David Goldman

ATLANTA (AP) — With a newly renovated museum at its Atlanta headquarters, Delta Air Lines hopes to lure tourists to the company’s original aircraft maintenance hangars on the north edge of the world’s busiest airport.

The 68,000-square-foot museum, housed in hangers that date to the 1940s, traces Delta’s history from crop-dusting and air mail service to its first passenger flight from Dallas to Jackson, Mississippi, on June 17, 1929.

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