Posts Tagged ‘ Trident ’

Save The Trident Facebook Group

Nov 6th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Other News

If any of you are members of Facebook, we’ve set up a new group on there for the Save The Trident project to save G-ARPO. Please join the group, which has discussions, photos, news, links etc. We’d love you to share your stories, memories, or hopes for the project. The group can be found on [...]



Spares from the De Havilland Museum

Nov 3rd, 2009 | By admin | Category: Project News

Some great news for the G-ARPO project came recently when the De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre (Mosquito Museum) at London Colney agreed to donate all of their spare Trident parts to us which will come in very useful for restoration. If you haven’t been, the De Havilland museum has finished an excellent preservation of the [...]



Structural Survey Complete

Oct 25th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Project News

On Friday 23 October, members of the Save The Trident team met up at Durham Tees Valley to inspect the aircraft inside and out. The purpose of this is to ensure the aircraft is suitable to be moved to its new home, and that no part of it will prove unsafe, or beyond hope of [...]



Trident Feature in Aeroplane Magazine

Oct 13th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Other News, Project News

The current issue of Aeroplane Magazine has a 22-page feature on the HS Trident, covering development, design, certification, operational life, accidents, exported examples and airline customers, and the demise of this fantastic British airliner. The feature is full of colour and b&w photographs and illustrations. Makes a great collectible piece on the Trident. As a [...]



North East Aircraft Museum – A Worthy Home

Sep 26th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Project News

Preserving Trident 1C G-ARPO is only going to be worthwhile if it is to have a good home. As things stand, we have a fantastic offer from the North East Aircraft Museum at Sunderland to provide a home for the aircraft in conjunction with expansion plans at the museum. The North East Aircraft Museum is [...]



Save The Trident – G-ARPO

Sep 24th, 2009 | By admin | Category: About G-ARPO, About the Site, Project News

Welcome to the website for Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C, G-ARPO, and our bid to save and preserve this historic aircraft. Currently based at Durham Tees Valley Airport as part of Serco’s International Fire Training Centre, we plan to move this aircraft to a museum site in September/October 2010 and restore her as a Trident [...]