After months of planning and the hard work of the Bournemouth Air Festival team, a vintage Venom Jet appeared overnight adjacent to the St Paul’s roundabout, on the Wessex Way, Bournemouth.

The project’s enormous scale involved crews from Days Transport, De Havilland Aviation and Bournemouth Police.

As the crew at the Airport started the 40-minute journey at 9.20pm it was a tense wait for the team at the other end as they eagerly awaited the arrival of the precious vintage cargo.

The vast Venom arrived on the Wessex Way site, Monday evening at 10pm. The jet itself had been dismantled onto four separate trailers to make the journey easier and the crews from De Havilland and Days Transport worked hard into the night to reassemble the aircraft.

The body of the jet was lifted, by crane, from the lorry onto the grass verge where the nose was attached and the boom added to the rear – completing its huge wing dimension.

Once the re-assembling process was complete the cranes made a final lift and carefully swung the Venom round into its prime position on the Wessex Way, ready for the thousands of passing vehicles to see in the run-up to the town’s landmark Air Festival.