These pictures are of the world’s only remaining iconic aircraft that was manufactured on the Humber at Brough the ‘Blackburn Beverley’ transporter aircraft.
The Blackburn Beverley spent 21 years on display in Beverley, East Yorkshire at the Army Transport Museum though on the 24th May 2004 moved to its new base Fort Paull Military Museum.
With the closure of the museum in Beverley Fort Paull raised what is thought to be around 25K pounds to buy the Blackburn Beverley as the aircraft along with other items housed in the Army Transport Museum were moved to make way for the redevelopment of Flemingate.
Close to 6 years since the Blackburn Beverley was relocated, the site at Flemingate, Beverley still remains undeveloped with many of the other items that were once displayed at the Beverley Army Transport Museum locked away in storage.
While the plane has found a new home where it will be preserved for years to come, the closure of the of the Army Transport Museum, like other projects in the town will surely be questioned by generations to come given the links between Beverley and the military base in Lecconfield.
Below: The Beverley Blackburn is pride of place at Fort Paull military museum – Fort Paull Web Site
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Many years ago my late Father and I visited the wonderful Beverley Aircraft at it’s previous home the Army Museum. What a lovely experience especially as the guide allowed me to sit in the “driver’s seat” as it were and learn how to fly!! He very kindly explained the controls and i will never forget that visit – it made our holiday especially as nobody else on the trip even bothered to visit such a marvellous plane. I was saddened when the museum closed and have only just managed to trace the new home of the Beverley Aircraft. May she have many more years with you.
As I flew the last Beverley into Hendon in 1968, my attention has been drawn, by my son, to this evocative site. “THEY” cut it up for scrap after leaving it outside for some twenty years! However, the BBC produced a film about London (Hendon) airport and it is accessible. I hope to visit Flemingate and reminisce while I still don’t need a Zimmer!
Captain, flemingate will be shops soon, the Beverley that was there was saved by the museum in Paull where it is made fully accessible to the public 🙂
In 1967. I had the dubious pleasure of flying from RAF Seletar(Singapore) to Ceylon (as it then was) and then on to RAF Gan, my home base.(southernmost island in the Maldives). The impression was that it would be quicker to walk, the journey seemed interminable and as we traveled in the boom (the thin bit of the fuselage) as we approached the Ceylon coast around dawn, the aircraft dropped like a stone and then soared like an eagle due to thermals. What a well built piece of machinery that was, as it hit the bottom of the thermal, there was such a loud bang and the whole aircraft shuddered, and then quite calmly, on it flew to get us safely home. A fantastic if somewhat frightening flight