👀 Inside The LAST-EVER RAF Blackburn Beverley ✈️ | Forces TV
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We have been shown inside what is believed to be the last-remaining Royal Air Force Blackburn Beverley, before the transporter aircraft before was recently sold for £21,000 at auction.
When it entered service in 1955, the Blackburn Beverley was the largest aircraft in the RAF and operated from rough runways or dirt strips.
We took a look on board before she was sold.👀
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This has to be saved. Surely it should be at Duxford or Cosford?
Agreed
whitemoor66 Agreed. Either would be a great place to display this aircraft. It has to be preserved especially as it's the last of its type.
Its been saved and going to a private airfield near selby for restoration
@@TheCaptainGreenbeard that is excellent news!
@@TheCaptainGreenbeard I'm not sure everyone will be pleased with the plans the new owner has for it! however it is saved, it will be stripped down and rebuilt, but the idea of it being a possible holiday let won't appeal to everyone!
Flew in one of these in Aden 1967 while serving with the RAF Regiment ,I think they had problems later on with part of the tail section falling off due to metal fatigue ,glad I didn’t know that then .
Doubt it
I did read about the metal fatigue somewhere and I’m sure it mentioned something about the tail section falling off ,but you’ve got me doubting it now ,I flew in it as an armed guard while they delivered supplies to some Paras dug in somewhere .
llewellyn evans I think that happened just before we arrived .the place was being run down by than ,family’s were leaving going home deemed not safe anymore for them , plus we were pulling out of Aden for good that year ,there were loads of abandoned cars and scooters on camp I rode round on a old lambretta .
This should be preserved at Duxford.
Or Cosford
Carabus 03 Agreed.
We need to keep these aircraft's, it's part of British history.
It's "aircraft" in plural.🙂
So is the English language, but it's evident that we've let that perish. [Even if it had been a normal plural, the apostrophe would have been wrong.]
Such a unusual and a historical plane should be saved for the country.
To let everyone know it has been bought by a collector, where its final home will be were not too sure, but this is the last remaining FULL Beverly, Newark air museum has a complete Beverly cockpit.
There is also a cockpit section of a Beverley at the South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum.
I have had the pleasure of looking around this magnificent aircraft a couple of times. Once when it was at the museum of army transport at Beverly. The other at its current location at Fort Paull. It will be a shame if this suffers the fate of scrapping or turning into a venue or some such.
To be honest the best place for it would be the Yorkshire Air museum at Elvington.
Yes I remember it being at Beverly shame the museum closed
I remember it being there too I have an old family video with footage of the army transport museum at Beverley with this bomber on it also if your from Beverley my dad drove for browns of Beverley was based at Victoria barracks now Morrisons
Beverley is one of those really, super duper cool planes that just looks awesome. Just pre-jet era military cargo planes are awesome, like the C-124, as well.
There used to be one in Southend aircraft museum. It was a great place where you could get right up close to the exhibits and originally the Beverley was open and you could even get into the cockpit. As a kid this was awesome, pretending to be flying it. It was a sad day when they broke up the collection and shut the museum to replace it with a roller skating rink.
8 RAR replacing 4 RAR at Terendak. In September 1967. I flew from Brisbane, Australia to Singapore on QANTAS. As our flight touched down, I saw a Beverley on the tarmac & laughingly said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if we had to fly to Malacca in that.”
That, being said, when we came to a standstill Buses pulled up & we were transferred straight to the Beverley.
I flew on the last Beverley in the British Airforce. From Singapore to Terendak Garrison, Malacca, Malaysia. September, 1967. It was a family flight & a number of children suffered hearing damage on that flight. We flew a Thunderstorm all the way, gaining & losing height & being buffeted all the way. One flight I will never forget.
I sat next to the Skin on the upper Deck with my wife, Singles were relegated to the lower deck, there was no interior lining. I watched a gap in a join in the skin open & close all the way from Singapore to Terendak arriving at the Terendak Strip at around 10pm.
When it left Terendak Garrison, it flew back to England, empty, to be decommissioned. I have no idea what it's number was.
It's going to the Solway Aviation museum in Cumbria - had to be disassembled for transport but will be fully assembled and on display in the next few years - please do support this little lovey aircraft museum
Apparently, the Solway air museum has managed to acquire it.
I love Britain and it’s history
I like the way the Bev could airlift vehicles in the main fuselage & the paras in the twin booms.
Actually I must’ve been thinking about another aircraft as the Bev doesn’t have twin booms
The lightweight Landrover was designed to fit inside the Beverley in greater quantities and improve air portability. By the time they had finished the design modifications to the "lightweight" it ended up weighing more than a short wheelbase Landrover and the far more powerful Hercules had made the requirement for the "lightweight" obsolete.
Blackburn just one of several manufacturers back when we had a aircraft industry went on to produce the all time classic Buccaneer, quote by the test pilot on its first flight'My sides airborne is yours?'!
Restore it too it's full working order ... Thankyou for your SERVICE GOD BLESS YOU 💎
Who cares this a beautiful aircraft
looks awsome
My dad worked on these in Aden in the mid-60s!
Flew from Singapore to Thailand in these with all our gear and Sioux helicopters
Thought it might be interesting to add a postscript.
As of 2024, The Solway Aviation museum, Carlisle looks like they are close to having a workable scheme to preserve the Beverley. I'd add a link but, you know, CZcams :(
I worked on these at the Airfield at RAF Halton....I feel old now.
I remember in the mid 1970s when they had one at Southend Aircraft Museum , and it was used during of the National Service RAF comedy “ Get Some In”.
The Director asked the Museum if they could start up one of engines for realism.
The engine started first time, even though it had not been run for several years.
Has anybody got any idea if the Southend Aircraft Museum still exists, and what happen to the Beverly aircraft at that location ?
I live in Leigh on sea which isn't far from Southend, I don't remember it being at the airport.
Dazza No it was not at the Airport , but at the Aircraft Museum, not for from the Zero six Night Club.
That was vintage 1976, and have no idea the situation today.
I did hear a rumour that Vauxhall’s cars used Museum for storage, but that was over twenty years ago.
Does the Air Training Corps still have Squadron in Leigh ?.
No that is long gone.
If you break into the grounds of the skylark Hotel, there's a couple of old planes rotting in the undergrowth from the old museum. Viscounts I think...
Vulcan XL426 is still alive and well though.
Stephen Hill Thank you for your reply.
I am one of those who believes never go back, and think by I would be shocked by the state of the place today.
I remember that Beverly from when I was really young lad and used to go skating at rollercity in southend, it got scrapped somewhere around the mid to late 80s.
Definitely keep it! Come on Duxford/IWM/Hendon keep the history while we can- get a lottery grant
There was one at Hendon but they cut it up years ago,
Needs to be saved, we must save examples of our military aviation history, can IWM Duxford or The RAF Museum not get involved.
What about the example at Southend Airport ?
Maintaining a static display only costs a few pounds, moving the lawn and cleaning the windows once a week. This Beverly static display would cost no more than the accommodation costs for ONE of the thirty thousand rubber boat illegal migrants who have been welcomed on British beaches this year with benefit application forms and accommodation vouchers.
It would be nice to see theme parks like Drayton Manor and Thorpe park buy aircraft like this and have museums as a side atraction. They definatley have the money. Id want to go even more if i could see this aswell.
Kids could learn something...
Now on her way to her new home at the Solway aviation museum
A mate of mines father actually bought it, I believe there are plans to move it to sell tons little landing strip and possible convert it into a holiday let / Airbnb sort of thing
. It was bough by a Swiss chap. Through a company called condor aviation, they're restoring it and putting it on display.
WHY IS THE UK NOT PRESERVING IT'S HERITAGE
Cause you don’t have any. Your heritage is that of your immigrants lollll
from a time when great britain could build airplanes
*Aeroplanes. Britain built aeroplanes.
If only the IWM at Duxford could be persuaded to take her on
Shame on Hendon for scrapping theirs.
What happened to the one outside the RAF museum at Hendon?
It was scrapped in 1989.
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This aircraft when the Bev' transport museum closed should have NEVER have gone to Fort Paul it should have gone to the excellent museum at Elvington ,those in the know who can remember the Vulcan at Blackpool airport only have to see what a corrosive effect sea air has on a airframe
I wonder if that is the one from fort Paul near hull uk
It is - that's the only one left and they're selling it (sounds like covid is taking its toll)
It is - that's the only one left and they're selling it (sounds like covid is taking its toll)
@@ozzieparky it was nothing to do with covid they shut down in January
Oh. Is that Fort Paull?
Yes, it is. It was a great place to visit
I've been on that at fort Paul well known for being haunted👻👻
Such a shame that Fort Paull is now closed down.
Duxford have an obligation to take ownership of this and restore it!
Don't scrap it!
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Why the hell didn't the RAR Museum do more for !!!!!?
Send it to Pima.
The new Duke of Edinburgh should be asked to save this plane given its connection to his late father and the Royal family connection to the armed services.
It's actually a sad story, the lack of exercise stunted its growth when young. Now it looks like that.
Last of the big pistons.
Turn it into a cafe, that way put some of the profits to make it fly again
In Sweden they keep a lot of there old planes still flying (look up on ytube Swedish classic air shows ) a lot more appreciative of there air history than this country . And boy have we lost some amazing aircraft , never too be seen flying again , stuck in a hanger .
Air BnB WTF?
First like first viewer
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Can't let everything go to scrap, ludicrous mentality to do so, the more who open their wallet the easier it is to preserve these items for prosperity sake.
Not exactly a C130 Hercules.
Gus Gone
+ But there again a Horse isn't a Donkey.
According to my Late Father, the Hercules needed an Airfield, the Beverly Didn't------it was designed to land on whatever ground. I wish I could attach photos to this post
@@rmcguire7033 That sounds excellent and obviously makes it a very versatile beast. I remember seeing one of these land at our local airfield in the 1960's. I was a young school boy sitting on my fathers shoulders. He was serving in the reserve after National Service. Do you have many photos?
@@gusgone4527 Thanks for that reply. Sadly I don't have many photos, the majority of my dad's overseas pictures were slides which were stored in his attic, somewhat unwisely, and suffered from mould attack. I really only have pictures from St Paul Fort.
@@gusgone4527 Thanks for that comment