Airport Ground Trainer Airliners in the UK

Head to most airports and you’ll find some kind of aircraft relic hanging around.

These are usually used as a training aid by the airport’s fire crews. Sometimes they’re used by cabin crews for training, as events spaces and film props, or maybe they’ve been retired from these purposes and are just hanging around forgotten.

Our book Preserved Airliners of Europe covers all airliners and military transport aircraft in museums and private collections, as well as ground trainers like these.

If you’re interested in hunting out some of these ground trainers, here are all the known examples in the UK to get you started:

Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome

SX-OAD Boeing 747-212B

Cardiff Airport

G-AVMT BAC 1-11-510ED Forward Fuselage

Cranfield Airport

G-DOCB Boeing 737-436

SP-KWN BAe Jetstream 3212

G-RAVL Hawker Siddeley Jetstream I

Doncaster Sheffield Airport

EC-DDX Boeing 727-256 Forward Fuselage (in hangar)

Dunsfold Aerodrome

N88892 Boeing 747-236B

N437TH BAe Jetstream 31 Fuselage

N437UH BAe Jestream 31

ZA150 Vickers VC10 K.3

East Midlands Airport

TC-ALM Boeing 727-230 Fuselage

Glasgow Prestwick Airport

G-CELR Boeing 737-330 Fuselage

Humberside Airport

G-AVMP BAC 1-11-510ED Forward Fuselage

London Gatwick

G-CEXP Handley Page Herald

I-DAVA McDonnel Douglas MD-82

London Heathrow

G-BOAB is stored at London Heathrow and is often moved to different locations.

G-BOAB Concorde 102

London Luton

G-AOVS Bristol Britannia 175 Fuselage

VP-BJW Boeing 737-301 Forward Fuselage

Newcastle Airport

C-GWJO Boeing 737-2A3

G-AZMF BAC 1-11-530FX Fuselage (in hangar)

G-BBYM Handley Page Jetstream 200 Fuselage (in hangar)

North Weald Aerodrome

N44914 Douglas C-54Q

Norwich Airport

G-CELS Boeing 737-377 (in hangar)

[Read Our Norwich Airport Spotting Guide]

Teesside Airport

G-AWZS HS.121 Trident 3B

G-AZNC Vickers Viscount 813 Fuselage

G-BKIE Shorts 330 Fuselage

UR-UTA ATR 42-320

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