Watch: Georgia Williams Trust buys flight simulator for Shropshire air cadets
A squadron of cadets in Shropshire are flying high –without leaving the ground. It's all thanks to new flight simulators bought for them by the Georgia Williams Trust.
1130 Wrekin Squadron Air Training Corps will be able to use the simulators to help with their training thanks to the generous donation.
And the cadets themselves worked out all the parts they needed, ordered the pieces and put them together themselves.
The Georgia Williams Trust was set up in memory of the 17-year-old, who was murdered in May 2013. Her killer Jamie Reynolds is serving a whole-life sentence for murder.
Georgia had been the head girl at Ercall Wood Technology College and was a member of the student council at New College Telford, as well as being part of the match-day safety team at AFC Telford United and a Cadet Corporal with 1130 Squadron, Air Cadets who are based on King Street in Wellington.
She had ambitions of one day joining the Royal Air Force as a paramedic.
At her funeral, cadets formed a guard of honour for the funeral cortege.
Her mum, Lynnette Williams, who now runs the charity said she had been to visit the cadets and see the simulators in action.
She said: "It looks really impressive.
"I know the flight squadron is really pleased because before they would have had to go to Cosford, where they are competing against other squadrons and can only use it so many at a time.
"Now, it is all on site and they meet twice a week so they are able to put more cadets through the training."
In October the trust will also purchase a plane that was built by cadets in Georgia's memory.
The plane flew in both Cosford Air Show and the Fareham Air Show and will offer pleasure flights to disadvantaged and disabled young people and will be used as a teaching tool at air bases across the country.
Project leader and trustee, Mary Parry-Sargent, is leading the drive behind buying the plane.
