Donations and Sponsorship

You can help this project in a variety of ways, from financial sponsorship, to tools, materials, or just your time. If you are able to help, contact PROJECT 53 via the 'CONTACTS' section

A.     Restoration and Equipment

•    Join Project 53 restoration team

•    Painting equipment and materials

•    Local Manufacture of rigs, trolleys etc

•    Servicing and repair of aircraft ground equipment

•    Airframe and engine spares

B.      Sponsorship

•      Lubrication fluids

•      Financial Donation

•      Tools

•      PR

•      Fund raising schemes

•      Annual membership or life time membership to GAM.

For annual or lifetime membership forms to Gatwick Aviation Museum visit www.gatwick-aviation-musuem.co.uk

We are always interested in donations and sponsorship for this project. Project 53 is currently continuing to restore ZF579 as close to the original airworthy condition she was in,  all work carried out on this airframe is subject to control standards and maintenance documentation. Original material specs and methods are used where still available today. This attention to detail makes the restoration slow and expensive. Obviously a live example of a lightning is significantly more expensive to maintain than a static exhibit. Special ground equipment and procedures are required to support a live airframe, and painstaking attention must prevail over all else, to maintain  integrity. To this end, restoration costs are far higher than that for a static display example, and as such we welcome any donations or sponsorship, in what ever form. Particularly useful are donations of vital fluids, such as OM15/DTD585 hydraulic fluid and AVTUR, both of which are costly, but vital.

We are particularly interested in any Lightning spares, what ever condition. Please contact us if you have spares available.