ULSTER AVIATION SOCIETY
Percival P.57 Sea Prince T.1
— WF122
Engineer and UAS Volunteer, Denis Piggot concentrates on the restoration of the Sea Prince's Leonides engines.
Photo: Ray Burrows
Photo: Ray Burrows
Photo: Ray Burrows
UAS Volunteer Paul Bryars gets his hands dirty taking apart one of the Sea Prince's Leonides engines
UNDER RESTORATION
Our Sea Prince fuselage waited patiently for its future restoration. Work had already started on the engines and other small parts though
Volunteers disassemble one of the Sea Prince's Leonides engine for its journey to its new home at the UAS
Volunteers disassemble the Sea Prince's tailplane for its journey to its new home at the UAS
The Percival Sea Prince's main fuselage being loaded onto a low-loader for its journey to its new home at the UAS
The Sea Prince's port wing being dissected off the main fuselage
Photo: Mark J. Cairns
Percival P.57 Sea Prince T.1 fuselage WF122 awaited its future restoration at the Ulster Aviation Society
Photo: Mark J. Cairns
UAS Volunteer Paul Bryars pains-takingly sands down one of the Sea Prince's wings, inch by inch
Percival Sea Prince's journey back for restoration
Back at the hangars, and it waits...
UAS volunteers are currently starting to work on the interior of the Percival P.57 Sea Prince after a year's extensive prep on the external fuselage and wings
Leonides engine restoration on Percival Sea Prince
Percival Sea Prince wing preparation
The Percival Sea Prince needed extensive initial preparation to its fuselage both inside and out
Photo: Alan Jarden
UAS Volunteer, Paul Bryars applies anti-corrosion coating to the Sea Prince fuselage
The daunting amount of future preparation work on the fuselage and wings hits the UAS volunteers Georgina Magee, Leo Tweedy, Team Leader Philip Erwin and Paul Bryars in Nov 2018
