Your HELP is required - Help save a rare British Airliner -
Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:34 pm
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For those interested, over on the Keypublishing Forum there is a campaign to save from scrapping, the last Hawker Siddley HS748 mark I Airliner left in the UK.
The HS748 is a post war twin engined turbo-prop airliner that achieved some oversales success for the UK in competition with the Fokker Friendship.
The airframe has been offered "free to a good home" and the forumites on the KP forum are supporting fund raising to dismantle it urgently ahead of the airport deadline and relocate to an appropriate museum.
Here is a chance for "armchair" or "computer" based involvement to preserve aviation history, and for enthusiasts connected by the Net to co-operate and support a project from around the world?
Forumites are currently pledging funds (in UK pounds) in the order of $40USD per head towards a target of @$5000USD to allow disassembly and transport costs to be covered for the recovery team.
They have already hit the half way mark in pledges.
Once an end destination museum has been finalised, and the funding target reached, pledges will be called in via bank transfer or paypal, and the dismantling and recovery will commence.
Please have a look and consider lending your support?
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1614340#post1614340
Details on the aircraft itself is available on this link.
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=101770&highlight=sisyphus
regards
Mark Pilkington
For those interested, over on the Keypublishing Forum there is a campaign to save from scrapping, the last Hawker Siddley HS748 mark I Airliner left in the UK.
The HS748 is a post war twin engined turbo-prop airliner that achieved some oversales success for the UK in competition with the Fokker Friendship.
The airframe has been offered "free to a good home" and the forumites on the KP forum are supporting fund raising to dismantle it urgently ahead of the airport deadline and relocate to an appropriate museum.
Here is a chance for "armchair" or "computer" based involvement to preserve aviation history, and for enthusiasts connected by the Net to co-operate and support a project from around the world?
Forumites are currently pledging funds (in UK pounds) in the order of $40USD per head towards a target of @$5000USD to allow disassembly and transport costs to be covered for the recovery team.
They have already hit the half way mark in pledges.
Once an end destination museum has been finalised, and the funding target reached, pledges will be called in via bank transfer or paypal, and the dismantling and recovery will commence.
Please have a look and consider lending your support?
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1614340#post1614340
Details on the aircraft itself is available on this link.
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=101770&highlight=sisyphus
regards
Mark Pilkington
Re: Your HELP is required - Help save a rare British Airliner -
Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:29 pm
I know of one airline configured 'BUDGIE' (or was before freighter mods) that operates from KBFI to a mine site somewhere in either British Columbia or the Northwest Territories on a fairly consistant basis, can someone who's a regular @ KBFI keep an eye out for this airframe, I've seen it most on the East side of the field near the Washington State Aviation Dept. Offices. These are the same folks who operated a pair of ARGOSY freighters and I believe, the last CARVAIR before it crashed a few years ago.