2017 Trident Opening Dates Announced
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 opening in April, ending in October. If you are coming to the museum on a particular day and would like to visit the Trident, please get in touch and we may be able to open it for you! 2017 Dates 8th...
Read MoreLooking Back on a Great 2016; Looking Ahead to 2017
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 sanding them down and painting with primer to preserve the metal which is exposed to the weather (thanks to Trimite). This took a number of days to do, and we also moved the wings to a spot behind the fuselage where they are...
Read MoreWe Finally Have an Information Board
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 and introduces people to what a Trident 1C is, and why G-ARPO is so special!...
Read MoreFuselage Cleaned Thanks to Warren Access
Going into winter parts of fuselage of Trident G-ARPO had become a little dirty, so we decided to give her a clean before it gets any worse. We know this will be an ongoing job, but want to keep on top of it and clean her regularly. Members of the team met on Saturday 15th October to do some washing. As you can imagine, it’s difficult to reach that high and can be dangerous to do on ladders, so we were grateful to receive the help of Warren Access who sent one of their Spiderlift machines and an operator. Warren Access are based in Newcastle and Huntingdon and have been in operation...
Read MoreAnother Wing and Horizontal Stabiliser Primed
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...
Read MoreOne Wing Sanded and Primed
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...
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