Project News

Trident lifts out of the car park!

Today was another significant milestone in the project to save Trident G-ARPO. After arriving at the North East Land, Sea and ...

Wickes sponsor us

Today we've arranged with Wickes to provide supplies to recreate the Pullman-style tables in our aircraft cabin, which were authentic to the ...

Lights in action!

We thought we'd show you some pictures of recent work inside G-ARPO. We've been adding power to the aircraft to allow ...

Cylinder Service Centre overhaul our jacks

Cylinder Service Centre Ltd is a local company in the North East and they have agreed to take a look ...

We’ve reached the first £1000!

We're really pleased to announce that we've reached the £1,000 mark on our 2013 fundraising drive! Thank you all so much ...

Airglide sponsors Trident protective coating

We had some more great news today through a message from David Stoneman, MD of Airglide. He has offered to ...

Volunteers Needed

The Save The Trident project is currently seeking volunteers to help progress the bid to restore G-ARPO. We are seeking people ...

Eyre and Elliston sponsor electrical work

Eyre and Elliston, an independent electrical wholesale distributor with branches across the UK, have agreed to sponsor electrical work on our ...

British Chemical Products sponsorship

We've just had another sponsorship for our Save The Trident project. British Chemical Products have kindly provided a 25 litre drum ...

2013 Fundraising Totaliser

Happy New Year to you all! We arrive at 2013 in a great position with the Save The Trident project, ...

Carpets and Vinyl Down

In the past week we've had the carpets and vinyl placed on the floor in G-ARPO. You may remember we received ...

Join our Facebook group!

It seems a lot of members have been disconnected from our Facebook group as it transitioned to the new style. So if you haven’t been on in a while, please go back and Like us again! And if you haven’t signed up yet, please go to this link to sign up: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-The-Trident/400424790009308 Our Facebook page is [...]

When G-ARPO’s engine exploded!

We recently spoke to another former pilot of our Trident 1C, John Preston, who recounted the story of the only emergency in his flying career which actually took place on G-ARPO. As part of the crew preparing to fly the aircraft back to London from Rome on 1st October, 1970, upon commencing their take-off run the number [...]

Trident lifts out of the car park!

Today was another significant milestone in the project to save Trident G-ARPO. After arriving at the North East Land, Sea and Air Museum (formerly North East Aircraft Museum) in the summer of 2011, the aircraft has sat in the car park whilst we awaited a space to put the aircraft on display. This was fine, [...]

Trident Talk at Royal Aeronautical Society, 14th May

Our very own Neil Lomax is presenting a talk about the Hawker Siddeley Trident at the Royal Aeronautical Society in Southend on 14th May. He’ll be looking at the history of the type, along with the work he did on restoring Trident 3B G-AWZK at Manchester, and the work-to-date on our very own Trident 1C [...]