Save a Trident G-AWZK Facing Scrap
 

Trident 3B G-AWZK is facing the scrapman unless £20,000 can be raised to transport her to a new home at Manchester Airport Aviation Park.

BA and the BAA want the Trident moved by the middle of February or else it is going to be broken up for scrap.

If anyone wants to help then please have a look at :-

www.s4ssl.co.uk/trident/save-the-trident.htm

for more info.

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If British Airways is now in such dire straits that it cannot afford £20k to ensure the preservation of this beautifully restored example of its own heritage, then it is in far, far worse shape than I had ever imagined.

How very sad!

I would love to see it at Manchester as I`m sure it would get very well looked after and to see people put so much work and love into a project to see it dragged from under their feet would be a disgrace.
Please also find a 1-11, Viscount, Vanguard ( my favourite that sound will live with for ever) and a Britannia,
don`t want much do I!!!!!!

Good luck to the viewing park at Manchester and to all who have and hopefully continue to work on the Trident
(perhaps they can re-create the British Aircraft industry as well)

Golf India Bravo

£20K? Is that all...??

How much does ba pay the likes of non-contributing creatures like King per annum? Or waste on Waterworks management initiatives? Assuming that's not an oxymoron..

Is there no-one with sufficient spine to save this aeroplane?

Why not just put some Trident undercarriage-spaced concrete blocks down on a small part of Thiefrow's zillion acres of grass, tow the ac there and secure it. Then make both it and a Concorde a permanent feature of Terminal 5?

I think this is an ideal opportunity for the great philanthropist Richard Branson to step in and generate some free/anti ba publicity (yawn)

Beagle - I still think you should read the Tom Bower biography on RB to get a little perspective, and spend less time making inane comments about BA

Am I right in thinking that this Trident is the one with a large section removed from each mainplane?
If it is, ( and I may be wrong) it's hardly worth keeping for posterity. It was a sacrilege to disfigure those classic Trident lines.

If they get it to Manchester perhaps they could swap the wings with the one in the fire compound as it`s not burnt?

Golf India Bravo

Wings
 

42,
Yes it is - they were lopped off to save space as it wasn't going to fly again, but the rest of the a/c is in pretty good condition and the layman probably wouldn't even notice anyway.

G-IB,

I believe that is one of the options to be looked at if they manage to raise the funds to transport her to MAN, but raisng the funds to save her is the priority at the mo.

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No, this is the Trident that is sitting in the BA maintenance area in pristine condition, probably the best preserved Trident right now.

To break it up would be a crime in my opinion, it is as much heritage as Concorde. And there are fewer around too.

I do hope that it can be saved.

AN2 Driver

This simply must not be allowed to happen. In the past BA allowed both the last remaining Argonaut to be destroyed, followed by the last BA owned Comet 4, both via the fire practice area over by the sewage farm/ T 5. They would get at least £ 20,000 worth of additional publicity if it were taken to Manchester.

:} why save something that was rubbish when it was new?

Such a small amount of money. If I had some I'd give it to you. I do wish you luck. Just while we're on the subject I never went on a 3B. When I saw Andy Mattock' s Trident simulator (presumably a 3B) it had a funny HSI with a sort of moving curtain. I don't remember that on the 2. Is it my memory?

There's Trident at Duxford but it was closed when I went.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/212932/L/

A link to a cockpit shot of G-AWZK

Golf India Bravo

Saw 2x BAC 1-11 in Malta last week. Medavia aviation. One minus engines. Other appears good condition with "official carrier for Miss World" on fuselage. Would be nice to preserve an example of this attractive aircraft in Manchester.:cool:

Dan

Why not ask Ghaddafi if you can have one of them...?

atb

What ever happened to the fine example that was at GLA untill the summer???

Effo Oh, it was broken up and is now probably several thousand tin cans. Same happened to the Trident Flight deck that was over at the fire training ground.

Aww man that's a bummer!!! :{ It looked to be in good shape too. Damn shame. I believe the one at LHR is very nice.:ok:

GLA Trident
 

Rumour is that it eventually got a slot! :E

STOP PRESS !!.

Some good news just in.

BA have now had a change of heart and have decided that she should go to a museum. This means that she has been saved until the end of March for the time being. Possibly being moved onto the airfield until it's possible to move her to MAN to allow the demolishion of the old BEA hangers.

Plans are to try and arrange for her to be moved at the same time as the 2 Concorde's to cut down on the costs.

BA will foot some of the bill for the move (total cost estimated at £68K), providing the Preservation Society can raise the £20K as a gesture.

This is the last Trident 3 that is left that is worthy of becoming a museum exhibit (i.e. has not been subjected to being burnt to a crisp for the last 20 years).

:)