AOPA Pilot Magazine - September 2019 - 32

PILOT BRIEFING
SWEEPSTAKES

|

WADE SHEALY shares

a happy hug with
AOPA President
Mark Baker as the
association awarded
and documented the
2019 sweepstakes
winner.

'Unbelievable'
South Carolina pilot wins the Super Cub
B Y D AV I D T U L I S

WADE SHEALY, of Simpsonville,
South Carolina, received the
surprise of a lifetime when
AOPA President Mark Baker
visited Shealy at his hometown flight school to share
the news that he was the lucky
winner of the refurbished
Piper Super Cub. 
"Well, I think it's still a little
bit unbelievable," Shealy said.
"It's a beautiful aircraft and I
never dreamed that I'd win anything but a toy aircraft. I can't
thank AOPA enough for having
this program." 
To assist in pulling off the
surprise announcement, AOPA
enlisted Shealy's flight instructor, Cecil Tune, a former U.S.
Navy pilot and pastor, and
Brett Zukowski, co-owner of
USAeroFlight Flight School
at South Carolina's Greenville
Downtown Airport. Baker hid
just outside a hangar with the
Super Cub, waiting to surprise
Shealy with his new mode of

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transportation. Shealy was lured
to the airport by an AOPA editor who told the 81-year-old
pilot that he was writing a story
about older student pilots and
their flight instructors. 
Shealy started flight training when he was younger, but
as with many pilots, life got in
the way. He started flight training again in his 70s and now has
about 120 to 140 hours total time. 
"As AOPA president, presenting our sweepstakes airplane is
one of my favorite tasks," said
Baker. "Surprising a lucky pilot
with a completely refurbished
airplane, equipped with everything a pilot could dream of is
really a rewarding experience."
Every AOPA sweepstakes
airplane is one of a kind by the
time it's finished, but it couldn't
be truer for this Super Cub. The
1954 airplane sat for nearly 20
years before AOPA and Baker
Air Service started the restoration project in 2017. 

The airplane comes with
three sets of landing gear-
Wi p a i r e 's Wi p l i n e 2 1 0 0
amphibious floats, AirGlide
hydraulic skis, and Airframes
Alaska's 27-inch Alaskan
Bushwheel tundra tires. Whether
the aircraft is on floats or wheels,
it performs great thanks to the
160-horsepower Lycoming O-320
B2B engine with Electroair's electronic ignition system. 
Baker took the winner for
a familiarization flight. Shealy
sat in the front seat of the Super
Cub as Baker coached him on
start-up and taxi procedures.
Shealy said he thought the aircraft was a bit challenging at
first, but he began to get more
familiar with the nuances before
touching down on Runway 1.
"It was my first encounter
with Mark Baker, but he can
fly with me anytime-in my aircraft," Shealy said.
EMAIL david.tulis@aopa.org 

How is the
winner chosen?

AOPA members are
always curious about how
the winners are drawn-
and many of you have
been known to jokingly
offer bribes when you
see the airplane at the
shows. The sweepstakes
drawing is completely
random. Sweepstakes
administrator Ventura Associates International LLC
in New York City handles
the drawing and sends
AOPA randomly selected
entrants' names with the
prize assigned to each,
so AOPA can deliver the
prizes. Grand Prize winner Wade Shealy won
with his single automatic
membership entry, showing that it really does just
take one entry to win.



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