"Should we fly it or should we mount it as an exhibit and hang it from a ceiling?"

Eighty years after it was used to deliver its first package across the country, more than a decade after three people were killed when it crashed into a Central Florida lake, and a few years after it was brought out of the wreckage and fully restored to its original condition, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University got one of its first planes back.

“This thing has quite the history,” said the school’s archivist, Kevin Montgomery, as he perused records and photographs that fill a display case inside his office. “It’s pretty special.”

The Waco plane, built in 1928, was originally owned by the school’s co-founder John Paul Riddle.

Tuesday morning, it huffed and puffed on a runway near Daytona Beach International Airport.

Read more at the Daytona Beach News-Journal.