Perth Aerodrome’s HS Trident.

[LTNman]

I have been looking at a book which shows a Trident parked up at Perth Aerodrome around 20 years ago.

Was the aircraft flown in, when did it arrive and what happened to it?

[chevvron]

Perth Scotland or Oz?

[LTNman]

Scotland. There also used to be an Air Inter Viscount 700 at Perth. What happened to that aircraft as it was kept in a hangar?

[Newforest2]

The aircraft is/was G-ARPX, Air Service Training. (The Trident).

[Newforest2]

If the Viscount was F-BGNR from Air Inter, it is now with the Midland Air Museum awaiting re-assembly.

[LTNman]

So was the Trident flown in?

[Sir George Cayley]

If it was flown in I'd pay a pound to see the film

SGC

[excrewingbod]

I believe it was flown in. It was broken up a good few years ago, but the odd part or two still lingers around AST.

[Thunderbird167]

Flown to Perth November 1982 and Broken up September 1996

[wrecker]

I think Alan Bailey was the skipper

[LTNman]

So how long is/was Perth's runway?

[ANW]

From a flight guide dated 1980:

Take-off and Landings distances are identical for all RWYs:

04/22 853m x27m tarmac 04 = 853m / 22 = 853m

10/28 609m x22m tarmac 10 = 609m / 28 = 609m

also grass 15/33 available, length 564m for t/o and landing

From AERAD 1987:
04/22 TORA/ASDA/TODA/LDA = 2799 Feet

[captplaystation]

Was watching this

Vickers Vanguard lands at Brooklands -- The incredible story - YouTube

and remembered the even more remarkable "arrival" which is the subject of this thread.

Anybody got any footage/still pictures of the arrival of the "gripper" (or even the Froggy Viscount) would love to have seen that.

The Skippers name (Alan Bailey ) seems to ring a bell, anyone know if he did something post BA ?

[wrecker]

I think Alan used to raise single suckler beef on his farm which was inside Compton Abbas ATZ . He had his own strip and i think a 172