Display of Airframe At The Carolinas Aviation Museum
In its February 2011 newsletter, "CONTACT", the Carolinas Historic Aviation Commission announced that the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, had arranged to acquire the entire airframe of the accident aircraft as a donation from Chartis Insurance, the aircraft's insurer. The airframe was transported in a disassembled state and then reassembled and displayed in the same configuration as it was when it was pulled out of the Hudson River in January 2009 in a conserved mode, as opposed to being restored. The estimated cost to set up the exhibit was donated by Joseph Supor of J Supor & Son. The display opened in 2012.
Cleaning and conservation of the airframe was completed in New Jersey at J. Supor & Son by RestoreCore on May 20, 2011. Transporting the plane (less wings, empennage, and engines) to Charlotte via road began on June 4 and was completed June 10.
The most difficult maneuver of the entire 7-day, 788-mile road trip to Charlotte took place on the second day of the trip, in Moorestown, New Jersey, when it took more than one hour to make one right turn in the center of the town.
The Carolinas Aviation Museum held a reception on June 11 to commemorate the final "arrival" of Flight 1549 to Charlotte with Captain Sullenberger as keynote speaker. The 155 passengers from the flight were invited to the event.
The wings arrived separately September 15.
Sullenberger visited the museum and entered the plane once again on November 18 as part of a fund-raising effort.
On January 15, 2012, 52 passengers and air traffic controller Patrick Harten boarded the plane, the passengers taking the seats they had three years earlier, and Harten taking the place of Sullenberger, who had to be with his family.
On June 29, 2012, with the statute of limitations for lawsuits related to the incident having passed, the museum received the engines that had been stored near Cincinnati. Volunteers put the engines back together for display with the rest of the airframe in the fall of 2012.
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Tail damage where aircraft was first set down in the river
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Nose damage
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Wing damage, engines were removed by the insurance company before transport to the museum.
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