A Trip to Belfast International
Feb 8th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Featured articles, Project News
Tony, Jill and I had a great day at Belfast International on Friday 5th Feb courtesy of the Belfast International Fire & Rescue team. These guys treated us incredibly well, spending time shuttling us around from terminal to fire station, to Trident and back again. They really were friendly and helpful, so a big thank you to all the guys there.
We spent time inspecting their Trident 2E, registration G-AVFE, which is now largely unused and has many parts still in good condition both inside and outside. Since these parts are largely interchangeable between Trident 1 and 2 aircraft, we could use many of these when restoring G-ARPO at Sunderland.
Subject to final go-ahead, we should be heading back to Belfast in April or May to bring back many of the parts.
I’ve attached a picture of the fire crew at Belfast International, who were kind enough to pull out one of their engines and pose for us. Thanks again guys!
This trip was paid for by ourselves, and no donation money went towards this. You can be sure that all money donated goes directly to G-ARPO.
Looks a bit worse for wear than when I flew on her in August 1979! (2nd Trident I flew on!)
I look forward to stripping out the usefull part’s for PO