G-AWAW restoration update
Hello and so sorry for the tardiness (10 years after we loaded her in a container to America!) of this long overdue update! I would like to thank again all who came to help us and try to give an update. I am not a pilot so please be patient with me!
There is a website, G-AWAW.org for anyone who is interested. This is managed by AW's current guardian/caretaker who is an AP mechanic in Texas.
Not much has happened since the plane arrived in America. She has been moved from Florida to Texas. The restoration task turned out to be quite a formidable one but the aircraft is being preserved. The plane requires extensive repairs to be made airworthy again, including several hundred hours of metal work. She would need a new engine and a left wing strut. Other things too. I don't think a final decision has been made yet on whether to make the aircraft a static display or return her to full airworthiness but all are in agreement that the history should be preserved as the only (as far as we know) Cessna 150 to fly from England to Australia. For those who may not know, G-AWAW was flown by Janette Schönburg from England to Australia to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Amy Johnson's flight.) Whether AW will be restored to airworthiness again will depend on what resources are available and what kind of purpose she will have. The mechanic says airworthiness is technically possible and the parts are available but it will be a formidable task and expense. So in a holding pattern there. He has cleaned all the pieces and got them ready for further work.
Another thing I am hoping to do is help to reconstruct some of her history and perhaps piece together in part the lost log books. I thought a possible way to do that might be by appealing to anyone here who may have flown G-AWAW and might be willing to send me the dates and the names, places and any stories or memories you have of the plane. I will put all this on the computer and send that on to Texas so that we can preserve that part of the history too.
Thank you so much again to all who helped!
Jennifer in Norway