Large, heavy aircraft
moved

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Moving can be a pain for anyone, but on Sunday, one case of moving turned out to be a 100,000 pound challenge.

Officials hauled a B-52 plane Sunday from Kirtland Air Force Base to the new National Atomic Museum site on Eubank Boulevard.

The plane had to be taken apart and moved piece by piece. Due to the aircraft's size, it took nearly the whole day to move the plane the short distance.

When the museum opens in April, the name will change to the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History.

"We've been trying to move the museum for about 11 years, and it took a long time to raise enough money to do it, and build a new building," Jim Walther of National Museum of Nuclear Science and History said.

Museum officials said the B-52 was delivered to Albuquerque from the factory where it was built in 1955.