This is a global round-up of the type, listing all known locations of preserved and stored Tridents, including all those in the UK, China and Cyprus.

The booklet is fully illustrated with colour pictures of the remaining examples, as well as a list of airlines that operated the type.

All proceeds from this book go directly to the Save The Trident project. It is a bargain at £3.99

To purchase the book, click this link http://www.savethetrident.org/tridents-2010-booklet/

Cosford was formerly the home of the only preserved Trident 1C, G-ARPH. The nose of this aircraft is now at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune.

The stairs are in need of a little restoration, but that is no problem to our team. We’ll have this authentic addition to our display ready for the first visitors.

Staff at Cosford are also looking for any spare cockpit equipment which may still be in their care, and if found will be donated to us. We really want to say a big thank you for these kind offers.

If anyone can help with transportation for these steps from Cosford (near Wolverhampton) to Sunderland, we’d really appreciate it. Please get in touch!

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 from Stranraer. They stayed the night courtesy of Gil Good Lodge near the airport, who treated them both very well and provided a very pleasant night’s sleep.

Peter Foster and Matt Falcus flew across to meet them on Thursday 20th, and the team were met by Wayne Spence of the fire service and given airside access to the Trident.

All day was spent stripping parts such as overhead panels, PSU’s, rows of good seats, and just about everything we could take from the cockpit. We managed to take the ‘rams horn’ control columns, although they required cutting.

As with our visit in Februrary, the guys at the fire service were incredibly helpful and friendly, taking turns to supervise us and provide us with drinks and friendly banter. We really appreciate their help!

Matt and Peter flew home that night, whilst Neil and Tony took the van back across on the Stena Line ferry, with a complimentary night in the Swan Inn at Stranraer.

The next day they drove to the North East Aircraft Museum at Sunderland to offload the parts into a special container which has been provided. The rest of the day was spent meeting with the hauliers and crane company making plans for the move of G-ARPO later this year. We concluded the trip with drinks and a complimentary night’s stay at the St. George Hotel at Durham Tees Valley Airport.

All in all this was a fantastic trip and very useful. We can’t thank all of those who sponsored us enough for making it possible. Also to all those who donated money to use for fuel costs. We now have some fantastic parts to use on our aircraft when it comes to putting her back together.

Here are some photos from the trip:

[View with PicLens]

Tony adds:

Well we all got back safe and sound from Belfast after stripping off the parts from G-AVFE Trident 2E, and what a fantastic time we all had. Firstly I would like to say a big Thank You to all our sponsors on this trip and to all the people who chipped in for the fuel to get us there and back. We brought back a whole Luton Van full of parts including the nosewheel, and achieved what we set out to do. There wasn’t anything else to take inside the aircraft! We also managed to get the rear service door that we required, and the fire service have promised to get the rudder and wing tips off for us as we were not able to do it on this trip. The total cost that came out of the fund was: £125.90 for half price van hire, and we spent £134.55 on fuel and an excess van insurance policy of £11.17 that reduced our excess on the van from £500 to £100 ……… so in total £270.72 spent …..

Sponsorships for the trip were Stena Line for ferry crossings, Gil-GoodL odge , Swan Hotel and the St. George Hotel, as well as Intack with the van. Also Spacewise for a container for a year at Sunderland.

The fire service have said they will remove the wing tips and rudder for us and we can collect some time later.
Early june G-ARPO is going to be cleaned on the outside in readiness for cutting. We met up with the hauliers and crane company and have finalised all details at Teesside. So more will be hapening soon.

What we need now is to raise the money for the airside insurance we now need to have for Neil to cut the Trident, and also the cost of hiring cutting tools. We do have half price hire from HSS for this but will need the tools for at least 6 days. We estimate the cost to be around £1000 for the insurance and tools so to move forward we need your generous help.
Regards Tony

Gil-Good Lodge put Neil and Tony up in Belfast

Intack Self Drive

The Swan Inn Stranraer

Tony and Neil will take the van over to Belfast, whilst Matt, Peter and Phil Biley will travel by air from Newcastle to meet up and spend a day dismantling the parts we need. Tony and Neil will then drive them back to Sunderland, ready to use when G-ARPO arrives later this year.

Thank you very much Intack for this offer, and to those who have donated money towards petrol costs, and again to Stena for providing ferry crossings.

The talk was enjoyed by all, and to top it off the organisation donated money from a raffle held at the event to our project, which will go towards saving our aircraft. A big thank you to the organisers for this, and thanks to Neil for his presentation.

You can read all about RAes here.

The interview will take you to the aircraft, explaining her current state both externally and internally, and a bit about what we hope to achieve with her restoration.

Our thanks to Anna Foster for featuring our project and arranging the interview. Radio 5live is on 909/693AM. The Breakfast Show is from 6am, and available on iPlayer.

We spent time inspecting their Trident 2E, registration G-AVFE, which is now largely unused and has many parts still in good condition both inside and outside. Since these parts are largely interchangeable between Trident 1 and 2 aircraft, we could use many of these when restoring G-ARPO at Sunderland.

Subject to final go-ahead, we should be heading back to Belfast in April or May to bring back many of the parts.

I’ve attached a picture of the fire crew at Belfast International, who were kind enough to pull out one of their engines and pose for us. Thanks again guys!

This trip was paid for by ourselves, and no donation money went towards this. You can be sure that all money donated goes directly to G-ARPO.

Ideal World is a fantastic online and TV shopping company with many great products. Have a look at their website!

The fire service has kindly allowed us to use this Trident as a parts source for our restoration of G-ARPO, and have invited us to visit in early 2010 to see what is available and what we’d like. We would then come back at a later date to strip the parts and take them to Sunderland ready to be put into our Trident.

G-AVFE is largely complete both internally and externally, although we are led to believe little remains of the cockpit instrumentation. We will, however, be able to take the rudder, seating, control columns, rear service doors, internal panels and anything else that would help.

We are very grateful for this offer from Belfast International Fire Service and look forward to a better final result in G-ARPO because of it.

The group can be found on this link