CAAC Tridents/aviation viewing park at MAN…..

Trident in Nicosia. 🙂

Hiya Paul, well as promised, here you go: I didn’t manage to find much out i’m affraid. My search will continue though. For now this is all I could dig up. Hope this helps a little.

CAAC had a total of 35 Trident in their fleet.

B-2219. In storage at the Guangzhou Aviation School in Baiyun, China. Though looking a bit drained of colour and life, this Trident is apparently still in a good air worthy condition.

B-2216. In storage at the same location as 2219, looking in pretty good nick from the outside, but inside it has been completely gutted.

B-2217. Also in storage with sister ships 2219 & 2216. This Trident is looking a little more worst for the ware. Getting a tad bit of the rusty side.

B2211. This Trident was scrapped way back in 1993.

50057. This Trident, formerly of CAAC, has been fully restored, at least on the outside, and is on display in Zhuhai city, China. (Photo below)

Hope this is OK for now, not a lot I know, but please be patient. 🙂

Thank you, I shall hopefully post more on Sunday evening.

Cheers.

Skyjet, that would be cool!!!!! My address is:

[email]english_electric@hotmail.com[/email]

Thanks,

Paul.

hi to all esp paul cushion and A330 crazy
here is some great news from nicosia airport cyprus re the only lost trident still there from the war of 1974 i have had the hounor to visit this special aircraft with nearley 2,000 buliet holes in it and bust tyres and the whole thing been held up by the old undercuche and some hevey bolders holding it up i do have some photos of the aircraft and if one would like a copy to post them please e mail me with your address and i see would i can do for you ok

your truley reporter from sunny nicosia cyprus

I think that the Tridents that went to Zaire were all 3Bs, the information that I have suggests that they never operated there and some are reduced to scrap.

Thanks very much for all your replies! Does anyone know what happened to the Tridents that went to Zaire in 1985?

There’s some nice pics of the Duxford Trident on www.airliners.net and one or two CAAC Trident’s as well, although not present day pics. Unfortunately I still haven’t got the hang of this picture posting malarkey yet !

The Trident at Duxford is painted up in the “Red Square” livery and looks really good, I think this actual aircraft was stranded in Cyprus for some time whilst operating for Cyprus Airways. It was rescued by BEA/BA and returned to service based at LHR after extensive engineering. As far as I know the wings are in original config, I think that it is the Trident 3 that is preserved at LHR that has had the wings “clipped” As far as I know the final operator of the Trident in P.R.China was the airforce on transport duties.

There’s a Trident in 70’s BA colours at Cosford. It’s opened up from time to time for people to walk through. I know it’s not really helping the original poster but does anyone know whether the Trident still survives at BHX?

Regards,

kev35

There’s a nicely restored Trident at Duxford I think, it’s been painted up in BEA colours and has had a partial wing clip if I’m remebering right ? Needless to say it’s a static exhibit.

thanks!

Hiya Paul, I shall do a search for you over the next day or so and see what I come up with. I shall post again mid week.

Cheers.