Originally Posted by
WHBM
It's, inevitably, a bit more complicated than that, as the fuselages for the last ATP, and those two J61s, were all manufactured at Woodford and then trucked up to Prestwick for final assembly. As I understand it the last ATP and the first J61 had this done in 1992, the ATP was completed there and flown in May 1993, before the final Woodford-built ones, while it was another year before the sole J61 to be completed flew. As they were both then taken back to Woodford for further work, the whole exercise seems to have been somewhat futile.
At the start of production ATP fuselages were built at Chadderton and moved by lorry overnight to Woodford, I always assumed this was how it was done for them all.
Richard