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 [...]
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. [...]
Neil Lomax featured on the afternoon “Jon and Anne” show of BBC Newcastle today (20th July), discussing the project to bring Trident G-ARPO to Sunderland’s North East Aircraft Museum. Neil was quizzed on how the move is possible, what it entails, and why we’re doing it. If you missed it, you can listen again on [...]
We’ve had a fantastic offer from K D Flavell & Sons for welding work on our Trident. Flavells are based in Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, just a few miles from Durham Tees Valley Airport. They have agreed to sponsor us the welding work required when putting our aircraft back together at the museum in Sunderland. We couldn’t [...]
We now have taken out the airside insurance that we need in order to meet the requirements for us to cut the our aircraft ready for transportation. A lot of work to clear the rear service area needs to be done, and we will begin this shortly in order to access the rear to cut [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today we had the fantastic news that TNT have been kind enough to offer us the loan of some pallets to use when dismantling our aircraft. These will be used underneath the wings to support the airframe as parts are removed. TNT have a major depot in one of the hangars at Durham Tees Valley [...]
Members of the Save The Trident team visited Belfast International on Thursday 20 May to strip useful parts from Trident 2E G-AVFE, which is owned by the airport fire service there. Tony Jarrett and Neil Lomax took a van, kindly supplied half-price by Intack, across to Belfast on a donated ferry crossing with Stena Line [...]
