SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station.

"Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, the executive director of the B-17 Alliance Foundation said. "This was becoming a rare artifact sitting in our front yard."

Eventually, Scott and her husband decided to move the aircraft to the Salem Municipal Airport. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, a group of volunteers travels down to the Salem tarmac to rebuild the aircraft.

After the bomber sat on top of the Milwaukie gas station for decades, volunteers hope it can once again return to the sky.

The B-17 first arrived in Oregon in 1947 when Scott’s grandfather-in-law, Art Lacey, flew it to Oregon from Oklahoma once World War II

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