What a waste - a beautiful Trident 3B heading for the scrap cart - seen at London Heathrow

Trident Swansong 1980 - 1985
Here is my last Trident scan! And a very sad sight it is. An unidentified British Airways 'British' Trident 3B seen dumped in the old BEA maintenance area at London Heathrow. The aircraft is in a partially dismantled state and would have flown only about 14 years. Next door is the remains of Trident 2 G-AVFA which was being disposed of at the same time. BA Lockheed TriStar-200 G-BHBR is parked up behind the Tridents. These were the days when you could drive round the whole of the Heathrow inner perimeter road at will, and park up in various locations to grab photos :)
Possibly my only close up capture of a BA tug :)

Trident 3 run down - By the beginning of 1984, just six of the 26 Trident 3s had succumbed, these being: G-AWZA (Oct82), G-AWZE (May83), G-AWYZ, G-AWZW (Oct83), G-AWZB, G-AWZL (Nov83), Four more followed in 1984: G-AYVF (Feb84), G-AWZX (Oct84), Nov 84: G-AWZC, G-AWZZ (Nov 84). With G-AWZT having already been lost in a tragic mid-air collision in Sep76, this left just 15 to soldier on into 1985.

From the list above, this shot - taken in Jan 1984 - can only have been either: G-AWZE (b/u 1/84), G-AWYZ, G-AWZW, G-AYVF (b/u 6/84), or G-AWZA (b/u 7/84). Given the state of the aircraft, my money is on G-AWZE :)

For further information on the history of the Trident programme see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Trident

Visit my Trident gallery here - full of superb images of a great plane! www.flickr.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/galleries/7215765656...

Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and standard lens. Scanned from the original negative. A somewhat grainy image taken when I was experimenting with some high-speed monochrome print film in the mid 1980s!

You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/

Taken in: UK / England / Hounslow / Cranford (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1984

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