In April 1944, an airplane flown by Tuskegee Airman Lt. Frank H. Moody was lost in Lake Huron. Divers discovered the wreck in 2014, and since 2015 Wayne Lusardi, Michigan state’s maritime archaeologist and artifact conservator with the Department of Natural Resources, has been leading expeditions to document the airplane. Lusardi will discuss his work to recover, conserve and exhibit the aircraft in Detroit.

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Wayne Lusardi is Michigan’s state maritime archaeologist and artifact conservator with the Department of Natural Resources. For over 20 years, he has participated in the documentation of hundreds of shipwrecks located in state waters. Wayne also investigates historic aircraft wreck sites, both on land and underwater. He has led expeditions to Army and Air Force crash sites, including a Bell P-39 Airacobra flown by Tuskegee Airman Lt. Frank H. Moody. Wayne received his master’s degree in maritime history and nautical archaeology from East Carolina University in 1998 and a bachelor’s in anthropology and archaeology, with a geology minor, from Illinois State University.