Beverley Solway Aviation Museum Carlisle

As I understand it, the original plan for the Bev to become a kind of B&B (Blackburn and Beverley? 🙂 )  fell through after the buyer couldn’t raise the funds to move it, and has instead donated it to the museum.

In December, 2021, FlyPast reported it was being disassembled and taken to Yorkshire for use as housing or a cabin for a ill-defined scheme.

Knowing the fate of most aircraft turned into cabins or restaurants, I was a bit concerned.

Obviously, I have missed part of the story, did that deal fall through?

Thank you TA  changed.

You can change the title yourself as the OP.

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Apologies that the title should have been Solway Aviation and not Solvay as in the international chemical company.

Brain storm – sorry. I assume no point in asking for a moderator to adjust ?

Sabrejet: “Already being dismantled and ready to go according to posts elsewhere. Great news!”

From my information the ‘dismantling’ was undertaken by the previous owner who was I believe trying to sell the engines to help fund the original move to East Yorkshire; hopefully they will form part of the deal that takes the airframe to Cumbria.

Great news, we can’t save everything and clearly this is an obscure and large type that is not attracting much interest to be preserved, but if a museum is willing to take it, and is willing to raise the funds and the resources to dismantle and relocate it and then reassemble and display it, good on them, if the project actually progresses I am sure there are many sympathetic to the cause who would donate to some level of crowd funding.

I understand the current owner is donating the ownership and the removed parts, so good on him too for doing that and hence avoiding the obvious alternative of scrapping it or reducing it to a cockpit / fuselage.

Of course, the long term survival will require it to be put under cover, otherwise scrapping is still its eventual fate, and that is the case for the same museum’s Vulcan and other types, but I understand they were an original bidder when it was first offered for sale by the Fort, and had a Grant that funded the purchase price had they been successful.

Already being dismantled and ready to go according to posts elsewhere. Great news!