👀 Inside The LAST-EVER RAF Blackburn Beverley ✈️ | Forces TV 

This has to be saved. Surely it should be at Duxford or Cosford?

Flew in one of these in Aden 1967 while serving with the RAF Regiment ,I think they had problems later on with part of the tail section falling off due to metal fatigue ,glad I didn’t know that then .

We need to keep these aircraft's, it's part of British history.

This should be preserved at Duxford.

To let everyone know it has been bought by a collector, where its final home will be were not too sure, but this is the last remaining FULL Beverly, Newark air museum has a complete Beverly cockpit.

Such a unusual and a historical plane should be saved for the country.

I have had the pleasure of looking around this magnificent aircraft a couple of times. Once when it was at the museum of army transport at Beverly. The other at its current location at Fort Paull. It will be a shame if this suffers the fate of scrapping or turning into a venue or some such. To be honest the best place for it would be the Yorkshire Air museum at Elvington.

Beverley is one of those really, super duper cool planes that just looks awesome. Just pre-jet era military cargo planes are awesome, like the C-124, as well.

8 RAR replacing 4 RAR at Terendak. In September 1967. I flew from Brisbane, Australia to Singapore on QANTAS. As our flight touched down, I saw a Beverley on the tarmac & laughingly said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if we had to fly to Malacca in that.” That, being said, when we came to a standstill Buses pulled up & we were transferred straight to the Beverley. I flew on the last Beverley in the British Airforce. From Singapore to Terendak Garrison, Malacca, Malaysia. September, 1967. It was a family flight & a number of children suffered hearing damage on that flight. We flew a Thunderstorm all the way, gaining & losing height & being buffeted all the way. One flight I will never forget. I sat next to the Skin on the upper Deck with my wife, Singles were relegated to the lower deck, there was no interior lining. I watched a gap in a join in the skin open & close all the way from Singapore to Terendak arriving at the Terendak Strip at around 10pm. When it left Terendak Garrison, it flew back to England, empty, to be decommissioned. I have no idea what it's number was.

There used to be one in Southend aircraft museum. It was a great place where you could get right up close to the exhibits and originally the Beverley was open and you could even get into the cockpit. As a kid this was awesome, pretending to be flying it. It was a sad day when they broke up the collection and shut the museum to replace it with a roller skating rink.

I love Britain and it’s history

It's going to the Solway Aviation museum in Cumbria - had to be disassembled for transport but will be fully assembled and on display in the next few years - please do support this little lovey aircraft museum

The lightweight Landrover was designed to fit inside the Beverley in greater quantities and improve air portability. By the time they had finished the design modifications to the "lightweight" it ended up weighing more than a short wheelbase Landrover and the far more powerful Hercules had made the requirement for the "lightweight" obsolete.

Apparently, the Solway air museum has managed to acquire it.

Blackburn just one of several manufacturers back when we had a aircraft industry went on to produce the all time classic Buccaneer, quote by the test pilot on its first flight'My sides airborne is yours?'!

Who cares this a beautiful aircraft

I like the way the Bev could airlift vehicles in the main fuselage & the paras in the twin booms.

Restore it too it's full working order ... Thankyou for your SERVICE GOD BLESS YOU 💎

Flew from Singapore to Thailand in these with all our gear and Sioux helicopters

Needs to be saved, we must save examples of our military aviation history, can IWM Duxford or The RAF Museum not get involved.

Definitely keep it! Come on Duxford/IWM/Hendon keep the history while we can- get a lottery grant

Thought it might be interesting to add a postscript. As of 2024, The Solway Aviation museum, Carlisle looks like they are close to having a workable scheme to preserve the Beverley. I'd add a link but, you know, RU-vid :(

looks awsome

I remember in the mid 1970s when they had one at Southend Aircraft Museum , and it was used during of the National Service RAF comedy “ Get Some In”. The Director asked the Museum if they could start up one of engines for realism. The engine started first time, even though it had not been run for several years. Has anybody got any idea if the Southend Aircraft Museum still exists, and what happen to the Beverly aircraft at that location ?

My dad worked on these in Aden in the mid-60s!

WHY IS THE UK NOT PRESERVING IT'S HERITAGE

It would be nice to see theme parks like Drayton Manor and Thorpe park buy aircraft like this and have museums as a side atraction. They definatley have the money. Id want to go even more if i could see this aswell. Kids could learn something...

I worked on these at the Airfield at RAF Halton....I feel old now.

Shame on Hendon for scrapping theirs.

This aircraft when the Bev' transport museum closed should have NEVER have gone to Fort Paul it should have gone to the excellent museum at Elvington ,those in the know who can remember the Vulcan at Blackpool airport only have to see what a corrosive effect sea air has on a airframe

from a time when great britain could build airplanes

What about the example at Southend Airport ?

If only the IWM at Duxford could be persuaded to take her on

Now on her way to her new home at the Solway aviation museum

Maintaining a static display only costs a few pounds, moving the lawn and cleaning the windows once a week. This Beverly static display would cost no more than the accommodation costs for ONE of the thirty thousand rubber boat illegal migrants who have been welcomed on British beaches this year with benefit application forms and accommodation vouchers.

A mate of mines father actually bought it, I believe there are plans to move it to sell tons little landing strip and possible convert it into a holiday let / Airbnb sort of thing

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What happened to the one outside the RAF museum at Hendon?

Duxford have an obligation to take ownership of this and restore it!

Don't scrap it!

Send it to Pima.

Why the hell didn't the RAR Museum do more for !!!!!?

I've been on that at fort Paul well known for being haunted👻👻

Oh. Is that Fort Paull?

I wonder if that is the one from fort Paul near hull uk

Last of the big pistons.

It's actually a sad story, the lack of exercise stunted its growth when young. Now it looks like that.

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The new Duke of Edinburgh should be asked to save this plane given its connection to his late father and the Royal family connection to the armed services.

In Sweden they keep a lot of there old planes still flying (look up on ytube Swedish classic air shows ) a lot more appreciative of there air history than this country . And boy have we lost some amazing aircraft , never too be seen flying again , stuck in a hanger .

Turn it into a cafe, that way put some of the profits to make it fly again

Air BnB WTF?

Can't let everything go to scrap, ludicrous mentality to do so, the more who open their wallet the easier it is to preserve these items for prosperity sake.

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Not exactly a C130 Hercules.