only westward non-stops were to Chicago; United had a nonstop DC-7 to Los Angeles; come summer TWA would resume its weekly two-stop Constellation flight to Paris via Gander in Newfoundland and Shannon in Ireland. Only BOAC and Pan Am flew out of Detroit-Wayne Major. American Airlines moved from Willow Run to Detroit-Metropolitan in October 1958, followed by Northwest, Allegheny, and Delta in the next few months. Airline flights ended in 1966 when United, TWA, Eastern, North Central, Mohawk and Lake Central moved to Metro Airport. In 1968, upon hearing that Detroit Tigers fans had overwhelmed Metro Airport in order to greet the newly crowned World champions, the jet carrying the team diverted to Willow Run instead. USA Jet, a charter airline, briefly brought flights back to Willow Run, on DC-9s and MD-82s. The airport today In 2002, with the creation of the Wayne County Airport Authority by the state legislature, the license to operate the airport was transferred from the general county government to the new independent authority. The Yankee Air Museum opened on the airport grounds in 1981. A fire in October 2004 destroyed the museum's building and most of its artifacts. The static display aircraft, including a B-52 Stratofortress and other aircraft too large for display inside the hangar, were undamaged. In 2005 the museum moved to the other side of the airport, where they began to rebuild their displays and gather more World War II memorabilia. In 2013, reports emerged of negotiations between the museum and the RACER Trust that would see the museum into a section of the former bomber plant. The Yankee Air Museum hosts semi-annual airshows over Willow Run, featuring the Blue Angels. Between July and September 2009, what was Runway 9R/27L along the southern edge of the airfield was converted to Taxiway H. This allowed the redesign of the southwest end of Runway 5R to reduce the possibility of encroachment by taxiing aircraft. In 2011, Michigan State University planted of canola and mustard seed on airport property to generate biofuels for aircraft use. The airport has available for future crop production. Until 2015, the airport was home to the sole aircraft of Baltia Airlines, an airline that has been attempting to commence operations to St. Petersburg since 1991. The aircraft was a Boeing 747-200 with registration N706BL (msn 21705). On March 8, 2017, Ameristar Charters Flight 9363, a charter flight carrying the Michigan