The Harold F. Pitcairn Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum has donors lined up to help fund an expansion. But when that can happen is unclear.
Mark Hurwitz, president of operations, Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum speaks about some of the plans for the expansion during a tour Thursday, February 22, 2024 at Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum in Horsham, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The Museum, which has been looking to expand for 13 years, is stuck in limbo since PFAS was found at the former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove in Horsham Township.
Pitcairn sold the land to the U.S. Navy in 1942 during World War II, and it became Naval Air Station Willow Grove. The department added land, bringing the base to 1,142 acres. After the base’s closure, the ownership of the vast tract was to be transferred from the Navy to Horsham. At the time, it had already been declared a Superfund site because of existing contamination.The transfer process under BRAC started out complex, given that the base was designated Superfund site in the 1990s. But the process really got bogged down when per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, were discovered throughout the base in 2011.
PFAS was found to have contaminated public water supply wells near the former bases. The contamination was found in Horsham and Warrington Townships and affected thousands of users of public water supplies and hundreds of users of private drinking water wells.
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