Add an object to your collection? Free transfer of Aircraft offered by National Museums Scotland

A BAC One-Eleven 510ED aircraft is available to any interested museum or group from National Museums Scotland (NMS).

The aircraft BAC One-Eleven 510ED aircraft, registration G-AVMO, was displayed at the National Museum of Flight since 2006. Now, the NMS is looking for a new owner. Preference would be given to accredited museums or organisations or institutions offering public access to the items, particularly those taking the entire group, but all expressions of interest for any use will be considered.

This aircraft was part of the British Airways Collection at RAF Museum Cosford (now RAF Museum Midlands) and was transferred to NMS in 2006. It has been on display since then. From 2016 to 2020, plans were made by NMS to bring the aircraft undercover in a new hangar dedicated to telling the story of the jet age. The project did not achieve planning permission, and a programme of conservation began in 2020, designed to slow the effects of corrosion. However, 31 years displayed outside at Cosford and East Fortune mean that its condition is now beyond the museum’s available resources to maintain.

Thus, the museum is looking for other interested parties in the entire unit or parts of it. Full details on the aircraft, components, condition and more are available at the (British) Museums Associations’ Webpage https://www.museumsassociation.org/find…/object-detail/… . Click here for further information on National Museums Scotland’s deaccessioning and disposals policy.

All expressions of interest should be directed to Lucy Gorringe, contact via email, phone or mail: l.gorringe@nms.ac.uk, +44 131 247 4054, National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF.

If you want to give an item from your collections to be deaccessioned or disposed a new home, please get in touch at web@iatm.museum for a display on the IATM webpage or else.