Today was another significant milestone in the project to save Trident G-ARPO. After arriving at the North East Land, Sea and Air Museum (formerly North East Aircraft Museum) in the summer of 2011, the aircraft has sat in the car park whilst we awaited a space to put the aircraft on display. This was fine, [...]
Today we’ve arranged with Wickes to provide supplies to recreate the Pullman-style tables in our aircraft cabin, which were authentic to the aircraft when it was in service. Wickes have agreed to give a very generous sponsorship of the supplies, so we thank them very much. Keep an eye out for progress pictures of the tables as [...]
We thought we’d show you some pictures of recent work inside G-ARPO. We’ve been adding power to the aircraft to allow us to install lighting in various places. So far we’ve managed to add lights to the toilets, certain signs, and even the forward galley. Discrete power sockets have also been installed which will help [...]
Cylinder Service Centre Ltd is a local company in the North East and they have agreed to take a look at the jacks we’re using with the aircraft at the museum as they are not functioning properly. They will repair them for us if possible. Cylinder Service Centre Ltd is a specialist hydraulic cylinder manufacturer and [...]
We’re really pleased to announce that we’ve reached the £1,000 mark on our 2013 fundraising drive! Thank you all so much for your donations, which have really been coming in thick and fast lately. We’re so happy that you support this project and want to see our Trident restored. Our aim was to raise £3,000 [...]
We had some more great news today through a message from David Stoneman, MD of Airglide. He has offered to sponsor a protective coating of their nano-technology Aviation Shield product on our Trident aircraft. This protective coating will be applied to the painted fuselage to give it a tough, durable, long-lasting solution against the weather, [...]
The Save The Trident project is currently seeking volunteers to help progress the bid to restore G-ARPO. We are seeking people who have aircraft engineering or fabrication experience who can work on the Trident as we move towards the relocation of the aircraft on the museum site, and eventually rebuilding it. Volunteers would preferably be [...]
Eyre and Elliston, an independent electrical wholesale distributor with branches across the UK, have agreed to sponsor electrical work on our Trident through their Sunderland branch. The company will sponsor us with the fusebox, transformer, and all of the cable required for the aircraft so that we can install lighting and electrical power to the interior. We [...]
We’ve just had another sponsorship for our Save The Trident project. British Chemical Products have kindly provided a 25 litre drum of traffic film remover, which we use for cleaning the years of grime from many parts of the aircraft and its interior. British Chemical Products, or BCP, specialise in the development of chemical blends for [...]
Happy New Year to you all! We arrive at 2013 in a great position with the Save The Trident project, to restore and preserve the world’s last complete Trident 1C aircraft, G-ARPO. However, in order to advance this project, we have a number of significant tasks to complete, and for that we need to raise [...]
