Trident 1C G-ARPO restoration commences....

[Trident man]

Hi all,I have now commenced restoration on flightdeck panels and part's from our robbing trip to Belfast and the donor aircraft Trident 2E G-AVFE.I willl add assorted images from our trip first then onto the restoration.

[Xplumberlives]

Well done!

[Trident man]

First up donaor aircraft G-AVFE this aircraft flew the Queen on a royal tour to Turkey in the early 1970's.





Flightdeck prior to robbing..


Flightdeck after robbing...


Tony Jarrett on the rob...


Peter Foster and Matt Falcus removing much needed PSU's...


Your truly cutting off the very rare and much needed control colum..


Peter,Matt and Tony removing more part's in the cabin...


Colum off....sadly i had to cut it off as we were only there for the day..


Tony removing P3 seat tracking....so the P2 seat can be removed...


Van filling with spares...

[Xplumberlives]

Your truly cutting off the very rare and much needed control colum..

Just look at the pure excitement on that face!

[Trident man]

Yes sadly i am...i would have liked to remove it correctly but it was being very awkward so because of time limits i had to cut it off .

[Mags]

Blimey that's in some mess!
At least it's helping another Trident

[Wedgy]

Great photos - thanks for sharing them here

[Jigsaw]

[Mackrick]

Looking forward to some more photos of the current state of G-ARPO and a few before and after shots please...

[Mayfly]

Thanks Neil will be interested to see before & after..... hope all goes well

[Gaz]

Yep, looking forward to see this progress

[Flywrite]

We're working on G-ARPO this weekend. I'll be taking the camera along, so I'll be posting pictures on our website and the forums afterwards.

Matt

[Trident man]

As Matt has stated we will always update on any works we carry out.

Here are some images of the panel restoration..

First up flatting the panels...


Repainting the pillar lamps...


Centre panel painted and partly furnished...


Quck snap from today
P2 panel almost complete...


Centre panel almost complete...

[Mayfly]

you don't hang about!!!

[Trident man]

you don't hang about!!!

No not really but i did the same when i restored Trident 3B G-AWZK..


Here is a piccy of the flightdeck of G-ARPO before we restore it..


And what she will look like when completed....This is the flightdeck of G-AWZK of which i resored alone.

[Jigsaw]

:ymapplause:

you don't hang about!!!

Pam's kinda fella

Going to enjoy following the progress of this project

[Gaz]

It's given me ideas for the guppy! I can see the panels coming off for refurb soon

[IanM]

It's given me ideas for the guppy! I can see the panels coming off for refurb soon

I can see this turning into quite a silly competition

[Xplumberlives]

Great fun to watch though!

[Mayfly]

you must fit the bill then Jiggy!!!

[Mackrick]

Nice photos.... looking forward to following this project....

[Trident man]

Hi all,the team spent all day at Teesside yesterday washing the aircraft (what they could get too) and i spent all day removing panels from the flightdeck to take home for restoration,anyway here are a few images from our day..

Tony hosing down.


Meanwhile i was busy in the flightdeck removing the black out paint on the windows..





I also removed the centre panel and placed in the restored one....just a taster as to what the flightddeck will look like once completed..



Two photo's after cleaning from different angles..





And then it was time to go home...

[Stigish]

Blimey, its looking better already. Do you clean cars too .

[Mags]

Donation winging it's way via paypal

[Gaz]

Nice work! Keep it up