Solway Aviation Museum

Source : Paul McTaggart (News & Star) THE MAIN fuselage of a historic RAF plane has now arrived at its new home in Cumbria. The relocation of the last remaining Blackburn Beverley RAF aircraft, known as ‘Big Bev’, involved a “complex process” of lifting and suspending the fuselage to refit the nose wheel and place…

Source : BBC News The last section of a huge military aircraft’s fuselage has been moved to its new home. The only surviving Blackburn Beverley is in the process of being dismantled in Hull and moved to its new home at the Solway Aviation Museum in Carlisle, Cumbria. Known as Big Bev, the aeroplane was…

Source : Paul McTaggart (News & Star) THE final pieces of a historic RAF plane are currently being transported to a Carlisle museum. Stationed at Hull’s Fort Paull, The Blackburn Beverley XB259 parts have been hoisted over the fort’s wall by crane and are now en route to their new home at the Solway Aviation…

Source : Jonny Manning (BBC News) Sections of a huge RAF transport aeroplane have been lifted from a fort by crane ahead of its journey to a museum. The last surviving Blackburn Beverley is being dismantled at Fort Paull, near Hull, so it can be moved to Solway Aviation Museum in Carlisle. “Big Bev” is…