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BN HISTORIANS ARE NO LONGER ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE RESTORATION OF CHARLIE NOVEMBER
At the end of April 2006, due to pressures of work, Allan Wright and Andy Clancey resigned as Trustees of BNAPS.
Peter Graham, Chair of BNAPS from its formation, will continue with BNAPS and the Charlie November project.
Members will be contacted directly by BNAPS in due course with details of new Trustees, restoration update.
All memberships and renewals are now administered by BNAPS.
For more information and all enquiries, please contact Peter Graham.
BN Historians, which for over 30 years
has recorded the history of Britten-Norman (BN) aircraft had for some time
had the idea of preserving, hopefully in flying condition, the earliest
Islander in existence. We knew that serial number 3 sat at Isla Grande Airport, San Juan, Puerto
Rico, since being
withdrawn from use in 1997. This was the oldest surviving Islander, as numbers
1 & 2 are no longer extant. Thankfully someone else had the same idea:
Peter Graham, who runs an aviation finance company. He also had plans to
recover the 3rd Islander, and was prepared to put an amount of financial
backing behind the project. So, during 1999 we hatched a plan to go to Puerto Rico and bring back Islander No3, Charlie November. (The name
Charlie November comes from the last two letters of her UK registration markings G-AVCN).
We then set up BNAPS: Britten-Norman Aircraft
Preservation Society as a Registered Charity, No. 1100735, to "preserve the history and aircraft of Britten-Norman with the support of members’ subscriptions, sponsorship and donations"
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