A collection of artifacts and historical materials from the long-shuttered Naval Air Station Glenview—including a helicopter and a World War II-era aircraft engine recovered from Lake Michigan—will have new owners and oversight under an agreement reached earlier this month.

The Glenview Hangar One Foundation and Glenview History Center on Oct. 3 announced that an agreement had been reached to transfer stewardship of the Naval Air Station Museum collection from the foundation to the history center.

The Naval Air Station Museum, which was located at 2040 Lehigh Ave. and open to the public on weekends, officially closed on Oct. 1.

In a news release, Hangar One Foundation President Thomas FitzGibbon called the new partnership with the nonprofit Glenview History Center “a legacy-defining mom

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