In November 2009 more than 60 years after it went crashing into Lake Michigan, a Navy F6F-3 Hellcat fighter plane was lifted from the water of lake Michigan. The aircraft recovery was paid for by the chief executive officer of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Andy Taylor. He requested the recovery to honor his father, a World War II naval aviator who flew the Hellcat fighter planes on the carrier Enterprise.Estimated to cost $250,000. The plane was then sent to the National Naval Aviation Museum in Florida for restoration.Taras Lyssenko, owner of the Chicago-based A&T Recovery lead the two-week recovery project.




