Paint Team

Update from the Paint Team – Sea Prince

Sea Prince gets a new Coat of Paint Having completed the repaint of the Hunter aircraft, the Paint Team moved onto the Sea Prince in August of this year. The Sea Prince is used regularly on school visit days as part of the education programme run at the Museum. The aircraft is also open to the […]

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Aircraft Inspection Platform

Aircraft Inspection Platform …… The paint team have been looking for a better, more stable, platform from which to paint the higher parts of our exhibits for some time. A chance look at eBay by our Vice President found a genuine Aircraft Inspection Platform for sale. After discussion by the committee, it was decided to

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Restoration of Whirlwind XR485 (part II)

Restoration of Whirlwind XR485 (Completion) ….. Hurrah re the Westland Whirlwind, the paint team have now completed the restoration painting. Pictures of the completion are below and a full gallery of images can be found by following the green link at the bottom of the page. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] This is the last

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