I am surprised and saddened by your views , after all this is an aviation forum.
I fact I was so mad 5 minutes ago I was going to type that you were a bunch of misguided ******s, but of course that would not be appropriate language to use here and clearly not true.

I’m not sure that Ian Dewar and his team read this forum so any good ideas or contacts would be better directed to YAM.

David,
I’m only going on what Ian Dewar told me and that was £135- 160k for the move + £35k for preparation of site at YAM, maybe it will run out cheaper, lets hope so.
I was intersted in your estimations, I would like to know where you can hire a mobile crane for £700 a day and specialist trucjks at £500 a day, that is very cheap. We hire mobile cranes here to shift specialist magnets, I’ll find out what the last price paid was.

Beverley update

I have been busy trying to find out as much as I can as to what the current situation is, and in the main its quite positive. Yesterday I spoke with Ian Dewar (YAM) who is central to the whole rescue plan and he gave me the following update:-

Its current home(Museum of army transport) has fallen into compulsary liquidation
The receivers see the Beverley as its only major asset.
Ownership of the Aircraft is subject to debate, there are three claimants, however a Mr Francis Daley appears to be the most likely of these.
If it is proved to be Mr Daley he wishes to move the aircraft and display it on the Humber estuary, totally the wrong environment, too much sea air, aircraft would only last a couple of years.
YAM (based at Elvington N Yorks) is only 20 miles from the aircrafts current location and is committed to saving her, however this does not necessarily mean moving her imediately.
The major Aviation museums of the UK have been contacted, ie RAF Hendon, RAF Cosford and Duxford and none are interested in taking this aircraft on, despite being the last example and despite being a significant part of British aviation history.
On the up side YAM have received significant support in the form of letters from Richard Branson, Senior RAF and MOD personel and most significantly HRH the Prince of Wales.
After a recent structural survey by experts it is know that the aircraft will stand one more dissasembly move and reassembly, so any move has to be the right one.
If YAM become the owners of the aircraft Mr Dewar has stated that he will only allow her to be sited at an established museum that has the right level of engineering support, YAM are able to offer that as they have several ex Beverley service personnel at the museum.
They are currently negotiating with the receivers to keep the aircraft in its current location through this winter to avoid any dissasembly in adverse weather, this looks as if it will be safe until March 04.
The move, if it happens, will be expensive and has been costed at about £200,000 to get it to Elvington and sited, any further afield will be pro-rata of course.
What YAM need is as many letters of support, press slots, e-mails as they can get (this is where we help)

The above text is an extract from the mail I have sent to our local press.
What we all need to do is write letters /E-mails to Ian Dewar and YAM showing our support, all will help to raise the profile.
Apparently the Yorshire press has been excellent and will continue to highlight the situation.
So please get writing/typing , Ian Dewar will be really pleased to receive any suppport, the more letters the better.
Please help.

Thanks guys, just got back from N Yorks unfortunately did not get time to get to Beverley. Did however find a book in the hotel that we were in called ‘Yorkshire from the air’ or some such title and one of the slides was a arial shot of Beverley town with XB259 sat right in the middle !.
I came back expecting some e-mail from the local press in prep for the story they are going to run in the Abingdon/Oxford papers, but nothing , so I will chase tomorrow.
Does anyone know anything about YAM and the receivers, I read in the latest Flypast that the despute over airframe ownership is not resolved.

Snapper,
Until now I had taken you as a reasonable, if slightly off the wall,sort of bloke. I know that you live on land that was reclaimed from the north sea so I can understand a little insecurity but to publicly attack, nay slate, the finest game known to man is nothing short of blasphemy.
You sir are a complete bollockhead!.
So there, its off my chest and I’m OK with it.
I’ll come teach you the rules if need be.
Phil

I’m going to be in North Yorks for the next three days and would love to get to Beverley to see her at get some photos, but we just wont have the time. However just in case I do does anyone know if she is still accesssible ?