AOPA Turbine Pilot Magazine - April 2015 - 75

A few good airplanes

Most buyers look for low-time
airplanes with freshly overhauled
engines, spotless interiors, and
lustrous paint. Not AOPA.
The Cessna 150s and 152s selected for the Reimagined program generally came with hightime engines, dated interiors, and
faded paint.
"The airframes are going to
be remanufactured, the engines
are going to be overhauled, and
they're all going to be repainted,
so there was no reason to seek
out newer aircraft," said AOPA
Senior Aviation Technical Specialist Rodney Martz, who found
and researched the airplanes the
association eventually purchased.
"We wanted airplanes that had
been in continuous service with
good paperwork documentation, and no corrosion. We turned
down several airplanes because of
corrosion concerns."
Josh Schmidt, a Marylandbased commercial pilot and
ground instructor seeking to build
flight time, delivered four 152s to
Wyoming for restoration. Along

the way, he overcame vacuum
pump and alternator failures, low
ceilings, and headwinds that reduced his forward progress to as
little as 30 knots.
"The flights were exciting, boring, satisfying, and scary-all rolled
into one," said Schmidt, 31, who
logged a total of 100 hours on four
westbound trips. "In the mountains,
you've got to know where you're
going to encounter lifting air and
sinking air. It's almost like flying a
glider."
Highlights included a full-moon
trip across the Midwest with
moonlight reflections on the snowcovered ground bright enough
to illuminate the area for miles. "I
got to go places I hadn't been and
build time toward the 1,500 hours
I'll need for an ATP," Schmidt said.
"It's been an adventure."
Martz said he thought about the
demanding flights to Afton during each prepurchase inspection.
"I knew every airplane had to be in
good enough shape to fly to Afton,
probably in the dead of winter, and
that's asking a lot," Martz said. "It's
not an easy place to get to." -DMH

A GROUP OF

weary 150s and
152s await their
rebirths on the
snowy ramp at Afton,
Wyoming (above).

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