Project News

We've had a fantastic couple of days working on G-ARPO. We welcomed K D Flavell Welding on site who spent yesterday repairing and securing parts of the port wing stub on the fuselage, and one of the wing tips using aluminium kindly supplied by Metal Supermarkets in Gateshead. As well as welcoming visitors to the museum on board the aircraft on Saturday, we managed...

Metal Supermarkets' Gateshead store has kindly agreed to supply our team with some metal for our upcoming repair works. The aluminium sheeting has been cut to size ready for us to use when repairing the wings of our Trident aircraft. They also kindly delivered the metal to the museum for us. Metal Supermarkets Gateshead is conveniently located on the Team Valley Tr...

To facilitate some urgent works and the supplies needed to see them through, Save The Trident is opening a fundraising pledge for Summer 2017. Our target is to raise £300 this summer. The money will be used on supplies and contractors being used in the restoration of our aircraft's wings, amongst other things. The exact nature of the works and progress will be announce...

We're excited to be heading towards the 2017 season when we'll be opening up our Trident, G-ARPO, regularly for visitors to the museum to enjoy. Because we have a limited number of volunteers, we are not able to open as often as we would like. Please do get in touch if you think you could help out on occasional days with showing people around our aircraft! We will commence ...

It's been another mammoth year in the project to save and preserve Trident 1C G-ARPO. Despite reaching our major milestone of completing the interior restoration and opening the aircraft to the public in 2015, we still had plenty to do, and 2016 saw numerous important tasks ticked off. With the wings and tail of the aircraft still detached, we decided to spend time sa...

We have finally added an information board outside G-ARPO giving visitors to the museum some information about the aircraft and about Northeast Airlines. Since we're not able to open the aircraft every day, museum visitors often wonder what this strange yellow aircraft is and miss out on finding out why it's so special. So this new information board solves the problem an...

This week we took advantage of good weather and some time off work to sand and paint primer on the other wing, as well as the horizontal stabiliser of G-ARPO. These are now protected ahead of the winter and show that we're still making good progress on our project. Here are some pictures of the work.

This week we've completed work to sand and paint primer on one of G-ARPO's wings. The wings were recently moved behind the fuselage to make them easier for us to work on and to give visitors the complete picture of the aircraft. The Northeast Airlines colours calls for parts of the wings to be painted, which we'll be doing in due course.

Trident G-ARPO's cockpit has now come to life thanks to our realistic and authentically-dressed flight crew models which occupy the Captain, First Officer and Flight Engineer positions. Visitors to our aircraft are able to see the crew in place in the cockpit when taking a tour of G-ARPO and hear real communications recorded from a Trident flight. This is all part of our ...