shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileMichigan

at Willow Run Airport in Belleville, west of Detroit

Yankee Air Museum Willow Run

Name: Yankee Air Museum Willow Run — on ceramic tile, by WenderVista
Brand: WenderVista

— the floor where Rosie built a bomber an hour.

— Michigan wall art on a ceramic tile, made to order

from $22

$58

6 × 6 in, glossy, hidden mount · all sizes, murals and mounts ↓

Finished by hand in Knoxville. Free US shipping over $75, on your wall in about ten days. Damaged in transit? Free replacement within 30 days; other returns within 30 days. Returns · Contact

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.

— Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.

— On the nightstand, catching the morning.

— shown in a slim black floating frame · 6 × 6 in

— bring it home

Yankee Air Museum Willow Run, on ceramic.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.

What kind of piece?

One tile — square or rectangle.

How big?

the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand

6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb

Surface finish

A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.

How it sits

A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.

$58

Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.

— size

6 × 6 in

15 cm

— weighs

1.6 lb

solid in the hand

— surface

ceramic, hand-finished

art rests beneath a thin glossy finish

— from

Knoxville, TN

our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies

— start a Coaster Set

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

— comes gift-ready

Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.

— or build a grouping

Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.

— a note from the studio

“A working warbird museum at Willow Run, the old Ford bomber plant west of Detroit where assembly lines once turned out a B-24 Liberator an hour. The B-17 Yankee Lady taxis from the hangar most weekends in summer. Saved from demolition in 2013, a 144,000-square-foot section of the original 1941 floor is now part of the museum. The propellers still pull air over the tarmac. Most days you can hear them from the gate.

from the studio

— about Yankee Air Museum Willow Run

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.

— the place

The Yankee Air Museum sits at Willow Run Airport in Van Buren Township, Michigan, about thirty miles west of Detroit. The campus occupies a 144,000-square-foot portion of the original 1941 Willow Run Bomber Plant designed by Albert Kahn for Ford Motor Company. At its 1944 peak the plant ran 3.5 million square feet under one roof and rolled out a four-engine B-24 Liberator roughly every hour. The flying collection includes the B-17 Yankee Lady, a B-25 Mitchell, and a C-47 Skytrain, all kept airworthy under FAA Living History Flight Experience authorization.

— informed by Wikipedia — Yankee Air Museum, Wikipedia — Willow Run

— the year

Willow Run's defining year is 1944, when Ford's assembly-line approach to four-engine bombers finally caught up with Henry Kaiser's promise. By March the plant was producing a complete B-24 every 63 minutes; by year's end Willow Run had delivered 8,685 of the type, nearly half of all Liberators built. Roughly 40,000 workers staffed the line, a third of them women whose collective image became Rosie the Riveter. Production ended in June 1945. The factory was sold to Kaiser-Frazer, then GM Hydramatic, and was largely demolished in 2014 after the museum saved its eastern bay.

— informed by Wikipedia — Willow Run, Wikipedia — Rosie the Riveter

— the visit

The museum opens Tuesday through Sunday at 47884 D Street in Belleville, with general admission running about $15 for adults in 2025. The flying collection lives in a separate hangar at the east end of Willow Run Airport; summer weekends bring ride flights on the B-17 Yankee Lady at roughly $500 a seat. The Thunder Over Michigan airshow each August fills the field with warbirds and a crowd around 30,000. The new bomber-plant building, opened in 2021, holds active restoration shops visible from the museum floor.

— informed by Yankee Air Museum — Visit

— where

United States · Belleville, Michigan

— position

42.2378° N · 83.5290° W

— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.

8 km NW

Ypsilanti

historic city

18 km W

Ann Arbor

university city

45 km E

Detroit

metropolis

3 km S

Belleville Lake

reservoir lake

Yankee Air Museum Willow Run

Ypsilanti

Ann Arbor

Detroit

Belleville Lake

— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Yankee Air Museum Willow Run — and about bringing the piece home.

— about the place

It was the Ford-built B-24 Liberator assembly plant, designed by Albert Kahn and opened in 1941. At peak in 1944 it produced one four-engine bomber every 63 minutes.

Ford completed 8,685 B-24 Liberators at Willow Run between 1942 and June 1945, about 47 percent of total B-24 production. No other plant matched the per-hour output.

Yes. Roughly a third of Willow Run's 40,000 wartime workers were women, and the most-cited "real Rosie," Rose Will Monroe, worked the line at Willow Run and appeared in a wartime promotional film.

The B-17 Flying Fortress Yankee Lady, a B-25 Mitchell named Rosie's Reply, and a C-47 Skytrain. The B-17 is one of fewer than ten remaining in flying condition worldwide.

Yes. The museum saved 144,000 square feet of the eastern bay in 2013 after the rest of the 3.5-million-square-foot factory was approved for demolition. That bay anchors the current campus.

It runs one weekend each August at Willow Run Airport, drawing roughly 30,000 visitors and a rotating cast of flyable warbirds. It is the museum's largest annual fundraiser.

— about the piece in your home

Yes. The piece reads as the plant itself rather than a generic warbird, which families with Ford or Rosie history respond to. A Medium with a handwritten note from the studio carries well.

It sits well in Industrial-modern, Mid-century, and Den-style rooms. The brass and dusk-blue tones pair cleanly with leather, walnut, and the warm whites common in studies and finished basements.

Yes, within the broader heritage-industrial direction. Painterly handling has displaced photographic prints over the last few cycles, particularly for offices, libraries, and rooms honouring a specific era.

Above a sofa, the Large reads at the right scale; above a console, a single Medium or a 4-tile Mural. For a great-room or office wall, a 9-tile Mural fills the space.

Yes. Order the Dura Satin or Matte finish for those rooms. Both resist humidity and scratching, while the Glossy finish is best kept to dry living spaces and framed wall settings.

A dry or barely damp microfibre cloth handles dust and fingerprints. Skip household cleaners, abrasives, and ammonia. The colour lives in the ceramic surface, not on top of it.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is painted in-house by Reid Wender in our Voynich stained-glass and alcohol-ink language. We do not license third-party imagery and the tile is hand-finished at the studio.

— if this one stayed with you