Source : Paul McTaggart (News & Star) PARTS of the last surviving Blackburn Beverley aircraft took ‘flight’ over the weekend for the first time since 1974 as 80 mph winds from Storm Eowyn battered Cumbria. Despite precautions ahead of the weather warning, the iconic RAF plane, currently under restoration by volunteers at the Solway Aviation…

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…