Brunty's Original B747

Thats all?

Honest Rob, that’s all you miss about Leicestershire?!!!!

If there’s one thing I miss about Leicestershire (well, apart from a chippy, which London seems devoid of!), it’s the ASDA 747 – no one around here believes me that it exists!

Hi all, here’s a shot of the current 747 taken while the Asda guys were applying the ‘decals’ in Aug 06

And here’s the original 747 in 94 the day after she arrived

😉

Hi All
The current 747 is the ex Olympic SX-OAD, The cockpit is stripped of main panels, but they are all held in safe store. The seats and trim is all pressent.
The upper deck is prety complete minus seats and carpet. The spiral staircase had been partialy re-worked but is usable. The main deck has been stripped of all interior panels, and an abortive start was made at converting it into a conference center, with most work having been carried out in the rear section, where a start was made on building a theatre, this is probably 40% complete. All of the original interior panels are there and could be refitted. I dont know about seats though.
Externaly, she is complete except for powerplants. I have a load of recent photo’s of the interior if anyone is interested, just PM me an E-mail address.
There has been some talk of her coming down to the main museum site, and the interior beeing tidied up for 2008, I belive she needs a couple of main wheels changing first, but could become the center of the museum with a shop etc, if we ever get the chance.
Re the G-ASDA colours, Asda hold a charity open day for there staff at the airfield each year, and the port side only was covered in masive stickers, she has not been re-painted, and the reg G-ASDA is of course fictisious.

I’ve seen on recent motoring programmes that it is parked with the ASDA paint still on it.

what’s the story of the current 747?

Hope the job was better than the last one 😀

Cheers Scotty,

Appreciate the help given. Funny how I find myself with parts of yet another French registered aircraft in my collection. :confused:

Ive been around Bex but with a new job and a few other commitments to boot it has meant that Ive not been near a computer much over the last month or so. Will drop you an email over the weekend. 😉

747 Registration

Phixer,

The registration was F-BPVE.

Take a look at this website

http://www.jezweb.dsl.pipex.com/avpicgal/Brunting97/AF747.htm

Regards,
Scotty

Cant help Mart, but nice to see you back. Where the eck have been hiding? Drop me an email when u have 5 for a catch up.

Bex