Air and Space Museum Wins Surprise $15-Million Gift
January 31, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
D. Travis Engen, former president of Alcan, an aluminum and packaging company, and his wife have donated $15-million to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, reports The Washington Post.
The donation, made in honor of Mr. Engen’s parents, will help build a new hangar for the museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center where visitors can watch the restoration of historic airplanes.
The donor’s father, Donald D. Engen, formerly led the Federal Aviation Administration and the Air and Space Museum. He died in 1999 in a glider crash at the age of 75. His wife, Mary Baker Engen, died in 2006.
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