Surviving Aircraft <<

The following is a list of all remaining Trident airliners and major sections thereof:


COMPLETE Preserved aircraft (6)

Location                  C/N        Marking  Type  Website (IF applicable)

Duxford Airfield, UK      2141       G-AVFB    2E   http://www.iwm.org.uk/duxford

Restored in 1990 by Duxford Aviation Society, the aircraft has a colourful history, having been rescued from Cyprus after the civil war in 1974 to return to the BA fleet. She is now painted in the original BEA red square livery and is on display at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.

Photo: Toby Vickers


Manchester Airport, UK    2312       G-AWZK    3B   http://www.zulukilo.org.uk

Retired in 1985 and used for training purposes, Zulu Kilo was first restored by the Trident Preservation Society in 1994.  Repainted into BEA Speed Jack livery in 2001, she was then under risk of being scrapped but after fund raising by the TPS was dismantled, transported by road and reassembled and restored at her current home at the Manchester Airport Aviation Viewing Park, opening to the public in April 2007.

Photo: Toby Vickers


Wroughton Airfield, UK    2314       G-AWZM    3B   [Science Museum at Wroughton]

In storage for the Science Museum (London) at Wroughton in Wiltshire, Zulu Mike is in the same condition as when she was delivered to the museum for safe keeping in 1985.  This storage facility for the museum house several interesting aircraft and is occasionally open to the public.

Photo: Ian Haskell

 

Datangshan, China         2130       50051     1E   http://www.chn-am.com (Chinese language)

The very first Trident 1E supplied to PIA and subsequently sold on to China.  Now exhibited at Datangshan museum, China.

Photo: Elliot Epstein


Beijing, China            2133       B-2207    1E

 
   


Zhuhai, China             2187       50057     2E

   


preserved nose/forward fuselage
Sections (8)

Location                  C/N        Marking  Type  Website (IF applicable)


London Colney, UK         2147       G-AVFH    2E   http://www.dehavillandmuseum.co.uk

  Front fuselage section at the de Havilland museum, London Colney, Hertfordshire.  This has recently been repainted into BEA livery.

Farnborough, UK           2310       G-AWZI    3B   http://www.g-awzi.co.uk

Privately owned by Andrew Lee, the cockpit of 'ZI is on display at the FAST Museum in Hampshire.  This aircraft had been withdrawn and stored at Heathrow, being used to test a livery design for a third party operator before being used for fire training. It was finally broken up and the cockpit section acquired and restored.  Several of the electrical systems can also be powered up.

Photo: Andrew Lee


Dumfries, UK              2311       G-AWZJ    3B   http://www.dumfriesaviationmuseum.com

  Previously used as a fire trainer, when the aircraft was scrapped, the forward fuselage was donated to the Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum.

Manchester, UK            2317       G-AWZP    3B   http://www.msim.org.uk

On display at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, cockpit only.

 

Photo: Neil Lomax

 


Hampshire, UK             2321       G-AWZU    3B   http://www.internationalcockpitclub.org.uk/gallery.php

Ex-Stansted ground trainer, nose to be restored.

 

Photo: Neil Lomax

 


East Fortune, UK          2108       G-ARPH    1C

  This aircraft was until April 2006 complete and well preserved at the RAF museum, Cosford and the sole complete preserved Trident 1C however it was broken up as part of the disbandment of the BA collection there.  The cockpit section has gone to the museum at East Fortune, Scotland.

Dumfries, UK              2117       G-ARPP    1C   http://www.dumfriesaviationmuseum.com

  Formerly a fire trainer at Glasgow, 'PP was scrapped but the nose section preserved and eventually moved to this museum where .....

Hampshire, UK             2152       G-AVFM    2E   http://www.internationalcockpitclub.org.uk/gallery.php

  Ex-Bristol technical trainer, cockpit privately owned and being restored. Located in Hampshire.


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