The Hickory Aviation Museum in Hickory, North Carolina, has a display of historic aircraft on the tarmac at their facility on the grounds of Hickory Regional Airport. Last month, one of the employees checked out funny noises coming from their Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star. A look inside revealed nothing going on, but then a close look at a picture he took revealed cats in the cockpit. A cat had taken shelter in the plane and had given birth to a litter of five kittens! The family had gone undetected until the kittens were old enough to start running around.
The mother cat is a gray feral that had been seen hanging around the airport. All five kittens were eventually trapped and were taken to the Humane Society of Catawba County. They will be available for adoption in December. The museum crew and the Humane Society are still trying to trap the mother cat so she can join the kittens at the shelter -and be spayed. -via People
(Image credit: Hickory Aviation Museum)