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The work will close the plane March 20; it’s set to reopen April 8.
The VC-118, as the plane is designated in the Air Force, is part of a collection of 10 presidential aircraft that went on display in a $40.8 million hangar that opened in June.
Truman flew on The Independence, named after his hometown in Missouri and the second plane built to transport a president, between 1947-53. Large tanks fueled the propeller-driven plane to fly non-stop in the continental United States, according the museum.
One of Truman’s most noteworthy journeys aboard The Independence took the commander-in-chief to Wake Island to meet with Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the midst of the Korean War in 1950.
The most famous presidential jet in the gallery, a Boeing 707 known as SAM 26000 that carried eight presidents from John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton, also temporarily closed to install new interior lighting and reopened on Presidents Day, Feb. 20.
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