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A big get for the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. The airplane that was headed to that city back in early 2009, but instead decided to take a dip in New York’s Hudson River, is finally going to arrive at its destination. After working toward an agreement for the past two years, the museum has struck up a deal to purchase the US Airways Airbus 320 plane, reportedly beating out other museums, including the Smithsonian. The aviation museum, located near the Charlotte airport, wouldn’t say how much they paid for it, but did tell the Charlotte Observer that the city had helped secure the deal, hoping that it would boost tourism. Here’s a bit of what they have planned for exhibiting the plane:

Plans for an exhibit are still evolving. [Mayor Pro Tem Patrick Cannon] has his own vision of the plane resting in a pool of water.

“Potentially,” he said, “(you’d) have the opportunity one day to actually walk out on the wings of this plane and look down as if you’re actually on the Hudson River itself.”

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