1940 Air Terminal Museum to Give Away Award-Winning Vintage Airplane

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(Houston, Texas – July 17, 2007) The 1940 Air Terminal Museum at Houston's Hobby Airport has launched a “Win Your Own Plane” raffle contest fundraiser. The Museum has acquired a beautiful 1947 Cessna 140 airplane, which it will give to one lucky raffle ticket holder. Raffle tickets are available for $50 each, and no more than 2,500 tickets will be sold. The drawing will be held at the Museum's July 2008 Wings & Wheels open house, or a sooner Wings & Wheels if all tickets have been sold sooner. The raffle airplane will be on display at the Museum’s monthly Wings & Wheels open houses, at fly-ins and airshows and at popular flying destinations throughout the contest.

The Cessna 140 is easy to fly, and inexpensive to operate and maintain. It carries two people at 108 miles per hour and uses less than five gallons of aviation gasoline per hour. The Cessna can travel over four hundred miles between refueling stops. The raffle plane won the “Best Continuously Maintained Antique” award at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Airventure in Oshkosh in 2004. It sports red trim over a gleaming polished aluminum airframe. “At the Museum, we meet people every day who have always dreamed of flying”, explained Museum president Drew Coats. “This contest will give one lucky winner the chance to realize that dream and enjoy the freedom and adventure that comes with owning his or her own airplane. It will also provide a vital and sustainable funding source for day to day operations as our young museum grows.”

The 1940 Air Terminal Museum is located at 8325 Travelair Road, on the west side of Hobby Airport and is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and on Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. The 1940 Air Terminal Museum is operated by the Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society, a Texas non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. For more information, to schedule an interview, or for high resolution photos, please contact Drew Coats at (832) 541-8134 or email at Coats@1940AirTerminal.org.
 

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Very cool!

I'm mighty tempted to buy a ticket. A 1 in 2500 chance isn't too bad. I almost don't mind paying the income tax on this.
 
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