JUST ONE LAST CHANCE? A VIKING FOR BLACKBUSHE..?
Nov 14, 2021 7:19:35 GMT
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Post by PB on Nov 14, 2021 7:19:35 GMT
JUST ONE LAST CHANCE?
THE VICKERS VIKING...
Just one last chance.......
When Blackbushe Airport is finally able to build her new infrastructure and truly become the south's major 'all peoples' General Aviation centre, there is one thing that will never change. Her history, a history more intertwined with the growth of post-war British independent commercial air transport than any other UK airfield. For Blackbushe to be complete after her new buildings and facilities are in place there remains just one place to be filled. A gate guard aircraft that silently reflects on a glorious past, a permanent reminder of the our nation's endeavours to provide truly independent commercial air travel and how Blackbushe was a keystone in these endeavours.
Just one last chance. The project around acquiring a DC-6 proved unsuccessful. However, a British post war airliner of smaller proportions would perhaps be highly appropriate. We have just one last chance to rescue one!!
The Vickers Viking. The twin engined post war airliner that served BEA and also many of the newly formed independent airlines that spawned as air travel grew in the wake of peacetime opportunities. Very many of these new airlines were based at Blackbushe and flew the Viking. Eagle, Independent, Hutig-Clan, Universal, Orion, Continental, Falcon, Airwork.. A Viking adjacent to Blackbushe's new Terminal would tell a wonderful story alongside the well known "Airlines of Blackbushe Airport" sign. Some thirty Vikings would have been Blackbushe based..
Just one last chance. Today one Vickers Viking stands forlorn on an airfield in Austria. G-AGRW. She first found Blackbushe in 1947, her days operating from here only terminated in 1959, shortly before the Airport was closed.
G-AGRW is ready to come home. Either that or she will be educed to scrap and a chapter in our aviation history will be closed for ever.
Plans to acquire her for conversion into a Wellington bomber have been scrapped, the Viking was derived from the Wellington in many respects. It would be costly, but investigation to date into Lottery funding, and crowd funding have shown possibilities.
Just one last chance. Financial and technical support would be needed, it will not be easy, but it's not impossible. At the end of the day a Viking in great condition in the colours of an airline for whom Blackbushe was home in the heart of the new Blackbushe we all look forward to would be worth its weight in gold, a fabulous adjunct to the proposed Blackbushe museum that would also come with the 'new' Blackbushe.
Just one last chance. Are you interested, what are your thoughts???
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Resting on Badvoslau-kottingbrun airfield (LOAV) in Austria..this was/is G-AGRW..
JUST ONE LAST CHANCE.
THE VICKERS VIKING...
Just one last chance.......
When Blackbushe Airport is finally able to build her new infrastructure and truly become the south's major 'all peoples' General Aviation centre, there is one thing that will never change. Her history, a history more intertwined with the growth of post-war British independent commercial air transport than any other UK airfield. For Blackbushe to be complete after her new buildings and facilities are in place there remains just one place to be filled. A gate guard aircraft that silently reflects on a glorious past, a permanent reminder of the our nation's endeavours to provide truly independent commercial air travel and how Blackbushe was a keystone in these endeavours.
Just one last chance. The project around acquiring a DC-6 proved unsuccessful. However, a British post war airliner of smaller proportions would perhaps be highly appropriate. We have just one last chance to rescue one!!
The Vickers Viking. The twin engined post war airliner that served BEA and also many of the newly formed independent airlines that spawned as air travel grew in the wake of peacetime opportunities. Very many of these new airlines were based at Blackbushe and flew the Viking. Eagle, Independent, Hutig-Clan, Universal, Orion, Continental, Falcon, Airwork.. A Viking adjacent to Blackbushe's new Terminal would tell a wonderful story alongside the well known "Airlines of Blackbushe Airport" sign. Some thirty Vikings would have been Blackbushe based..
Just one last chance. Today one Vickers Viking stands forlorn on an airfield in Austria. G-AGRW. She first found Blackbushe in 1947, her days operating from here only terminated in 1959, shortly before the Airport was closed.
G-AGRW is ready to come home. Either that or she will be educed to scrap and a chapter in our aviation history will be closed for ever.
Plans to acquire her for conversion into a Wellington bomber have been scrapped, the Viking was derived from the Wellington in many respects. It would be costly, but investigation to date into Lottery funding, and crowd funding have shown possibilities.
Just one last chance. Financial and technical support would be needed, it will not be easy, but it's not impossible. At the end of the day a Viking in great condition in the colours of an airline for whom Blackbushe was home in the heart of the new Blackbushe we all look forward to would be worth its weight in gold, a fabulous adjunct to the proposed Blackbushe museum that would also come with the 'new' Blackbushe.
Just one last chance. Are you interested, what are your thoughts???
Resting on Badvoslau-kottingbrun airfield (LOAV) in Austria..this was/is G-AGRW..
JUST ONE LAST CHANCE.
