View Full Version : Old Airliner at lancs fire training centre Chorley
magpienja
21st Jun 2010, 20:03
I had to visit the Lancashire Fire Training centre at Chorley last week,
For training use the have a complete fuselage of an old prop-liner,
Hard to tell the make....its in bare aluminium very good condition, looks like it maybe a Lockheed Electra turbo prop,
I wonder has anybody and information about it,
Lat/Long N53 39 49.21 W002 39 14.70 on Google Earth.
treadigraph
21st Jun 2010, 20:37
I'd guess at an HS748 - looks like one and there have certainly been a few redundant airframes around...
It looks too big to be a HS748. My guess would be a Lockheed Electra.
ZOOKER
21st Jun 2010, 20:53
The fuselage on Google looks like an ATP.
The port wing root is visible and looks very ATP like. There was one at Manchester Airport for a while.
Check out the 'Wrecks And Relics' book, it should be in there.
chiglet
21st Jun 2010, 21:08
It looks too big to be a HS748. My guess would be a Lockheed Electra.
Pardon?????
Budgie 50 seats 2 engines....
Electra 90+ seats 4 engines... :eek:
Curious Pax
22nd Jun 2010, 10:27
Google is your friend: BAe ATP set 70 (http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Aerospace-ATP/0944270/L/&sid=30a5525c7fe943385d34b392931788d1)
When production of the ATP was axed (the rebranding of it as a Jetstream 61 having failed) they were left with a number of fuselages that were never completed - this is one of them.
magpienja
22nd Jun 2010, 17:34
Curious Pax, yes that's the one, strange take a few parts off and they look oh so different.
Nick.