Amazing footage of a 1928 Cessna AW, the oldest Cessna still flying today, in flight on its way to its new home at Pennsylvania's Eagles Mere Air Museum.
As the EAA reports, after a long stay at the Poplar Grove Airport in northern Illinois, Cessna AW NC4725 was earlier this month relocated to Pennsylvania's Eagles Mere Air Museum. The aircraft was restored by Gar Williams and won Grand Champion at AirVenture and the Antique Aircraft Association fly-in at Galesburg, Illinois, in 1981.
The AW was a variant of the Cessna A model, a high-wing four-seat tourer that is actually cantilevered, which was new for the 1920s, when many aircraft designs still featured the perceived safety of two wings, struts, and wires. Only 83 Cessna A models were ever built, of which 48 were the AW variant. As this footage shows, NC4725 houses a 110 HP open rocker Warner engine.
Watch the oldest flying Cessna in the world in flight in the video below. And the read more on the aircraft click here.