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CONTRIBUTORS AND SUPPORTERS
Current & Former Forsyth Township Board Members:
Joe Minnelli, Mike Jakobowski, Jane Nordeen, Neil Armatti, Susan Flowler, Chris Adams, Bonnie Hartzell, Ron Lauren, Jim Dellies
Tom Brewer USAF Museum
Patricia Ochs USAF Museum
Dave Densmore GSA- State of Michigan
Becky Breslin GSA - State of Michigan
Shirley Been GSA – Davis-Monthon AFB, Arizona
Tom Dunleavy AMARC (Bone Yard)
Richard Every AMARC (Bone Yard)
Terry Shelton Aircraft. Restoration & Marketing
Scott Erbisch Director of Operations, Sawyer International Airport
Keith Kaspari Airport Manager, Sawyer International Airport
U.P. Scale Modelers (Models of F-106’s)
Russ St. Onge 87th Alumni & one of the founding members
Patrick McGee Special Coins + Internet support
Erv G. Smalley Internet support
Jim Gier Donated Hand Crafted Clocks for raffles
Karen Anderson K.I. Sawyer Development
Bill Landry A&P, IA Mechanic at Boreal Aviation, Inc.
Dave Vandenburg A&P Instructor at NMU – built wing lifting brackets
James Wuepper Donated 87 signed & #’d F-106A 11X14” photo’s)
Sawyer International Airport Maintenance Crew - Randy Sundell, Supervisor (Crane and equipment support)
Dan Kill – Air Force Association (AFA) Support and Cash Donation
Geoff Smith – Museum Secretary/Treasurer & project volunteer
Congressman Bart Stupak
Yankee Air Museum (Cash Donation)
Louis Nigro, Museum Director, Selfrige Military Air Museum (Main Landing Gears)
Tom Hill, Curator, Hill AFB Museum, Utah (Technical manual support)
Boreal Aviation Inc. (Cash donation, maintenance., volunteer’s & ground support equipment)
K.I. Sawyer Waste Water Treatment Facility (Helped with water issues.)
American Legion Post #349 of Little Lake (Cash Donation)
American Legion Post #71 of Gladstone (Cash Donation)
Vietnam Veteran’s of America Chapter # 380 (Cash Donation)
Vietnam Veteran’s of America Chapter #237 (Cash Donation)
Disabled American Veteran’s Chapter #69(Cash Donation)
Gwinn Lions Club (Cash Donation)
Gwinn High School Key Club
Gwinn/Sawyer Chamber of Commerce (Cash Donation)
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Cash Donation)
87th Fighter Interceptor Squadron Alumni Reunion (Cash Donation)
Jack’s Hideway of Gwinn
Wal-Mart Associates Good Works Program (Cash Donation)
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (Donated Lumber)
Crossroads Bar and Grill (Cash Donation)
Superior Iron Range Community Federal Credit Union (Cash Donation)
B-3 Computers (Cash Donation & Web Site Host))
Telkite, Inc. (Cash Donation)
Revere Electric Supply Company of Chicago (Cash Donation)
Superior Northland Chapter, Air Force Association (AFA) Chap. 238
Tailwinds Grill and Bar (F-106 Burgers)
Signs Now (Discount on banners, hangar and display signs)
Midway Rentals (Cables, slings, spreader bar, rental equipment and supplies)
Associated Redi-Mix (Donated 3 yards of cement for F-106 pads)
UPPCO (Drill holes for Sona Tubes)
Al Pierce (Surveyed footings)
Akzo Nobel Aerospace Coatings, Will Estes & Michael F. Suhara (Aircraft Paint and tech support)
LaFayette Collision Center (Painted the main and nose wheels)
Carquest Auto Parts of Marquette (Donated painting supplies.)
Carquest of Ishpeming, Jerry Harris (Donated paint mask’s)
Auto-Value of West Ishpeming (Cash Donation & donated paint mask’s )
Lake Superior and Ishpeming Rail Road Company (Fabricated landing gear parts)
PRC-DeSoto International, Inc., Thomas Kearney & Roald Johannsen (3M Sealant)
Military Graphics, Jim Pierce (Donated Aircraft Decals)
Signs-Unlimited (Helped apply aircraft decals)
Joe Leanes (Painted the jet)
WLUC TV-6 (Continuous TV coverage of project.)
Marquette Mining Journal Virtual Newsroom
Radio “Sunny 102” (Donated lots of “air” time for both the jet and museum.)
Radio Results Network (RRN) WCHT, WGLQ, WCMM, WTIQ, WGKL
The Gwinn Quarterly
Larry’s Family Foods
The K.I. Sawyer Newspaper
Geoglyphics (Discounts on Hats & T-Shirts)
Tom McConnell (Graphic Designers)
Damien Flemmer (Graphic Designers)
American Nameplate (Discounts on appreciation awards)
Job Nachman 87th Alumni
Jim Baldwin 87th Alumni
Tom Jones 87th Alumni
David Reid 87th Alumni
Doug Gordon 87th Alumni
R. Donnelly 87th Alumni
Dan Broome 87th Alumni
David Smith 87th Alumni
John Buckley 87th Alumni Pilot (Donation and assisted with shipment of wings.)
Steve Lambert 87th Alumni (Donated & sold patches on Ebay)
Gary Jerry 87th Alumni (Donated wood products for reunion)
Richard Huth, Sr. 87th Alumni Donated art
work and tickets for 87th Reunion
Chairman Gerald Corkin & the Marquette County Board of Commissioners
Dick Stultz 87th Alumni Pilot (Donated items for fundraising.)
Steve Rodgers American Eagle Airlines
Mike Fremling American Eagle Airlines
Machine Shop American Eagle Airlines
Ground Support Shop American Eagle Airlines
Upload Shop American Eagle Airlines
Marquette Fence Company (Discount for fence drop)
Col. John T. Wotring
Col. Glen P. Doss
Patrick K. Gamble
Col. David C. Kolodzinski
Ceil L. Snell
BG Elwood A. Kees Jr.
John Ashley
Charles Backman
Doug Barbier
Dan Benstrom
Emil Benti
Dennis Binon
Tom Bleau
Earl Blontz
Keith Carter
Rebecca Clark
Mike Conley
Larry Costello
Chris Croly
Bradley Deaver
Sherry DeBen
Mike Delphia
Joel Dodge
Marv Donnelly
Charles S. Dunne
Nolan Duquette
Lee M. DuQuette
Albert Durden
Frank Dutcher
Sam Elder
James Enright
Gary Erbe
Lt. Col Allan Erickson
Steve Farnsworth
Chris Faulbaum
Jack Fromm
George Frangedakis
August Funaro
Robert Gehris
Lester Goodwin
Charles Gool
Eric Harvey
Derrill R. Hawes
Jim Heinz
Bill & Bev Holbrook
Richard Howard
Donna Ingraham
Dan Jasper
Loren Johnson
Ray Johnson
Thomas Jones
Sherry & Kevin Kaderli
Elmer Kline
Don Kramer
Larry Knudsen
John Love
Robert Lutz
John Maier
Ian McClaren
Bill McManus
Mark Meisinger
Scott & Lisa mills
Nick Modders
Lee Nellist
Bill Nemachek
James Nickoli
Dave Olson
Joe O’Shields
Darrel G. Parobek
John Perkins
Pat perry
Bud & Joyce Piper
Terry Potter
Bernard Reynolds
Travis Robertson
Melvin Rossway
Ted Sarisin
Keith Schultz
Ronal Schwarzkopf
Stanton Sellers
Gary Shackelford
John Sheppard
Erv Smalley
Scott A. Smith
Don Stanski
Paul Stevens
Scott Taatjes
Terrance Thomas
Audrey Thorne
Lewis Vailliencourt
Less Veitala
Ken Watterson
TSGT. Webber
Jeffery Williams
Fred Zufal
And a BIG THANKS to the hundreds of people who purchased our project fund raising items.