Another bit of good news has come through for the project with Joseph Parr Group (Middlesbrough) agreeing to loan us 40 railway sleepers to use in the final stage of dismantling the Trident. We will be meeting next week to remove the wings from the aircraft. These sleepers will be used to support the wings [...]

We’ve been searching for a while for a way to get the rudder and wing tips rescued from Trident 2E G-AVFE at Belfast over to England. We now have a solution! Our Trident G-ARPO has been without its rudder for a number of years, and its wing tips were both damaged over the years. Since [...]

It was becoming a concern that we need to provide scaffolding to remove the wings of our Trident to satisfy health and safety rules, and this was going to eat into the money being raised to move the aircraft. However, following a call to a nearby company we have now been offered a solution from [...]

As we move forward towards the final stages of dismantling Trident 1C G-ARPO ready to move to Sunderland, our costs have increased as we have to find £300 extra for costs of scaffolding. Can you help? Everyone who donates to our project – even if it’s only a few pounds – is helping to preserve [...]

We had another productive day on the Trident on 3rd February 2011. Members of the team, along with hired contractors from MSD Cranes, SAS Access and Henderson Engineering met at Teesside on what was a bright but windy and cold day ready to make some more progress. The main focus of the day was to [...]

We reconvened at Teesside yesterday for our first visit to the Trident of 2011, determined to make progress on the horizontal stabiliser which had delayed us so much. In tow we had MSD Cranes along with their cutter, Stan, SAS Access with their cherry picker and operator, and Henderson Engineering ready to cut the bolts. [...]

We’re looking for an experienced disc cutter to join the team on site at Durham Tees Valley Airport over our next few visits to G-ARPO. Can anyone help out? We’ll need someone on 13th January if possible, and then further days in late January/early February, and then a couple of days in March. We need [...]

Let us take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2011. For us, we hope it will bring swift progress on our bid to take G-ARPO up to Sunderland, and we’re aiming to meet in the next couple of weeks to start again. We now have the [...]

As you would expect, the wintry conditions have put a temporary halt to work on G-ARPO. More than 1ft of snow fell over a few days, and freezing conditions have made the site very icy. While we await warmer times, here’s two pictures of our Trident looking serene and chilly in the winter sun with [...]

With the problems we’re having removing the horizontal stabiliser from G-ARPO, we’ve been in touch with Henderson Engineering to arrange them cutting out the eight bolts which hold it in place. It is obvious that we can’t lift the stabiliser off without removing the bolts, so with recommendation from Serco, Hendersons have agreed to do [...]