 The real Memphis Belle has been restored and was displayed at  Memphis, Tennessee from 1987 to the present. In 2004, it was to be  sent to the Air Force Museum outside Dayton, Ohio to be part of its  WWII display, but several congressmen from Tennessee put a hold on  the move. In September 2005 it was decided to move the Belle to  Dayton as originally planned after the organization that took care  of it decided they could no longer afford to do so.