S R Princess flying boat

Please see photo in attached link, post 3

https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?29624-Forgotten-Princess-SR-45

I guess it’s really a fuselage section as pretty much everything aft of the wing has been removed.

Most people who remember this say it was gone by about 76-77. However a chap I knew, had a family connection with the Princess was keen to acquire a piece, so made contact with the yard in the 70’s. He told me 1) the story about the staircase, 2) the problem the section was causing for the yard and 3) a big piece (or pieces) of what see in the photo was still within the yard when he visited in 1980 but was gone at the time of his next visit at Christmas 81.

He also said the yard was very difficult to deal with so he only has a few very small items including a rather nice SR marked decal label from the cockpit.

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Really, a fuselage Vega ECM, its a very large aircraft so I’m sure it would have been common knowledge if it had been a complete fuselage, and ive never heard this. Perhaps it was just a small section. Thanks for the info though.

I think the Boulton Paul museum had one of the power actuators.

And i have come across an old black /white photo of the tail end sticking out of its shed all those years ago taken by my late father,bless him .He saw it all in those days.

There are a few port holes around, I have one

I’ve seen a main instrument panel- Coventry ?

I’ve also heard a rumour that a spiral staircase (between upper and lower decks) was sold to a local architect for a project.

A fuselage survived in a Southampton scrapy until the late seventies, maybe even very early eighties. They used as a store and workshop until the local council threatened to charge them rates on it……at which point it was shredded.

There is a float at Stafford.

One of the control columns is in the Solent Sky Museum, pity they could not get more!