PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. – Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association CEO Craig Fuller announced during the AOPA Summit in Palm Springs, October 11, 2012, that the winner of the sweepstakes aircraft, a Aviat Husky, is Richard Zahn, CEO of a central Florida construction company. Zahn has been a private pilot since 2008, and has multiengine and seaplane ratings.
A 1963 B33 Beech Debonair has been selected as AOPA’s sweepstakes aircraft for 2013. The four-seat aircraft has just been fitted with 20-gallon tip tanks, and new windows and a windshield at D’Shannon Aviation in Buffalo, Minn. The Debonair will now go to Santa Fe Aero Services to have its wiring and avionics replaced with a brand-new Aspen Avionics three-screen suite, plus a center stack built around Garmin’s new GTN 750 GPS/Nav/Comm/transponder with ADS-B in capability. A JP Instruments engine analyzer and a PS Engineering audio system are included in the avionics package.
There is no purchase necessary to enter or win the AOPA Debonair sweepstakes. Visit http://www.aopa.org/sweeps/ for more information and complete rules. The Debonair sweepstakes is scheduled to begin in December 2012.
