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    Leaflets from SK Print Design

    In order to promote our bid to Save The Trident at events, we’ve had some leaflets printed. Helping us out in that task have been SK Print Design, who gave us an incredibly competitive price. I was very grateful for the offer as, when researching printers, SK came out in my wish list. You can [...]

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Project News

Evergreen Pallet Solutions supply pallets for Trident

Evergreen Pallet Solutions (UK) Ltd have come forward to provide us with 200 pallets to use on site at Durham ...

BBC Tyne interview with Neil

Neil Lomax featured on the afternoon "Jon and Anne" show of BBC Newcastle today (20th July), discussing the project to ...

K D Flavell Welding

We've had a fantastic offer from K D Flavell & Sons for welding work on our Trident. Flavells are based in ...

Airside insurance by Hayward Aviation

We now have taken out the airside insurance that we need in order to meet the requirements for us to ...

Climb aboard with Cosford’s steps

The RAF museum at Cosford have kindly donated a set of aircraft steps to our project which can be used ...

Flight magazine features project

Flight magazine has run a small feature on our project in a recent June 2010 issue, showing a picture of ...

A day of cleaning

On Saturday 5th June the team met up at Durham Tees Valley to spend a day working on G-ARPO. The ...

Pallets by TNT

Today we had the fantastic news that TNT have been kind enough to offer us the loan of some pallets ...

Successful trip to Belfast

Members of the Save The Trident team visited Belfast International on Thursday 20 May to strip useful parts from Trident ...

Gil-Good Lodge Provide Belfast Accommodation

We've been very fortunate to have accommodation for Neil and Tony provided by Gil-Good Lodge in Lisburn, Co. Antrim, when ...

Off to Belfast with the help of Intack Self Drive

Our return trip to Belfast has been scheduled for mid-May to pick up parts from the Trident 2E G-AVFE there. ...

Save The Trident – G-ARPO

Welcome to the website for Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C, G-ARPO, and our bid to save and preserve this historic aircraft. Currently based at Durham Tees Valley Airport as part of Serco’s International Fire Training Centre, we plan to move this aircraft to a museum site in September/October 2010 and restore her as a Trident [...]

The last flight of a Trident 1C

In case you didn’t know, our Trident – G-ARPO – was the last Trident 1C ever to fly. Makes her a fitting one to restore don’t you think? She had been laid up at London Heathrow in the BA maintenance area for a while, with her stablemates all being scrapped or sent to fire grounds [...]

Evergreen Pallet Solutions supply pallets for Trident

Evergreen Pallet Solutions (UK) Ltd have come forward to provide us with 200 pallets to use on site at Durham Tees Valley in supporting our Trident when it is cut up. These pallets will become useful when we cut the wings off the airframe, and when the nosewheel is raised ready for transporting the aircraft. [...]

Flight magazine features project

Flight magazine has run a small feature on our project in a recent June 2010 issue, showing a picture of the team when they began working on G-ARPO recently. It also encourages people to donate. Thanks very much to Max Kingsley-Jones for this, and Flight magazine.