Fairbanks residents are anticipating the return of their most iconic
aviation artifact to Fairbanks International Airport this fall.
The 1923 Curtiss Jenny flown by aviation legends Ben Eielson and Joe Crosson was
removed when the terminal was expanded and it settled into a lengthy
refurbishment under the care of the Pioneer Air Museum and Experimental
Aircraft Association (EAA), FAI chapter - Chapter 1129. Coordinated by
member Roger Weggel, an Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) instructor at
the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the Jenny has been taken apart and
reassembled with great care. But Weggel is quick to point out this isn’t
a new plane. This Jenny will never be museum quality. Rather, the
Eielson/Crosson aircraft sports evidence of work done by all the men who
took care of the aircraft the past 90 years, including highly regarded
Alaska mechanics Jim Hutchinson and Frank Reynolds.
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