Last Blackburn Beverley saved

On 3 April, the Carlisle Airport-based Solway Aviation Museum announced it had passed its £60,000 fundraising target for the move of Blackburn Beverley C1 XB259. The news, which followed a largely online campaign launched only at the beginning of February — while the museum was still closed for the winter — will secure the preservation of the last surviving complete example of the British-built airlifter, which otherwise faced a highly uncertain future following the closure of its long-time home at