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 [...]
Spacewise have kindly agreed to help us out with a container which we can use to store parts in until they are used on our aircraft. We will be bringing many parts back to Sunderland from Belfast, and these will need long term storage until we are ready to fit them into G-ARPO during its [...]
The Swan Inn hotel in Stranraer has kindly agreed to accommodate Neil and Tony on the return leg of their trip to Belfast in mid-May to pick up parts from the Trident 2E there. This helps us out very much, and we really appreciate the gesture. It will help us focus more of our funds [...]
We’ve been very fortunate to have accommodation for Neil and Tony provided by Gil-Good Lodge in Lisburn, Co. Antrim, when we visit this month. This hotel, with 14 ensuite rooms and all the comforts you could ask for, is located very close to Belfast International Airport, so it’s ideal for our trip. Why not try [...]
