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 [...]
The RAF museum at Cosford have kindly donated a set of aircraft steps to our project which can be used to enter and exit the aircraft when it is open to the public. Cosford was formerly the home of the only preserved Trident 1C, G-ARPH. The nose of this aircraft is now at the National [...]
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.
On Saturday 5th June the team met up at Durham Tees Valley to spend a day working on G-ARPO. The intention was to clean the fuselage from nose to tail and also spend time cleaning the cabin and removing more parts from the cockpit to take away and restore. We arrived at 8.30am, and thanks [...]
