Blackburn Beverley

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as XB259, the Solway Aviation Museum’s Blackburn Beverley C.1 and the only complete Beverley left of the 49 built, the first production aircraft (c/n 1002), first flown on 29 January 1955, which never joined an RAF squadron but flew trials with the A&AEE at Boscombe Down and then the Royal Aircraft Establishment, was sold to Court Line in the early 1970s, flown to Paull near Hull in 1974 and shown there and at Fort Paull for over forty years before Solway bought it at auction in 2020 and moved it to Carlisle in pieces: a heavy tactical transport of 162 ft span with four 2,850 hp Bristol Centaurus 173 radials, a high wing, a deep box-section hold with clamshell rear doors, a tail boom with its own passenger deck and windows, twin fins on a high tailplane and fixed undercarriage with four-wheel main bogies, shown standing level on its gear: the Royal Aircraft Establishment trials scheme the museum is restoring it to, painted from photographs of XB259, white upper fuselage and tail boom over silver hold sides, a dayglo-orange nose with a black anti-glare panel, black engine nacelles with a silver cowling band, orange outer faces on the fins with white rudders and red, white and blue fin flashes, a roundel on the boom between the words ‘ROYAL AIRCRAFT’ and ‘ESTABLISHMENT’, and orange outer panels, roundels and a large ‘XB259’ under the wings (no photograph shows the upper wing, so it is left silver with no roundels). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (1.5 MB) · Plate 143 in The Hangar