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  2. Vickers Viscount - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 November 2024. British four-engined medium-range turboprop airliner, 1948 Viscount Cambrian Airways Vickers Viscount General information Type Turboprop airliner National origin United Kingdom Manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs Status Retired Primary users British European Airways Capital Airlines Trans ...

  3. Hawk Model Company - Wikipedia

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    The Hawk Model Company is an American brand and former manufacturing company of scale model airplanes, ships, and figures, established in 1928. Headquartered in Chicago, Hawk was one of the first American manufacturers of injection-molded plastic model kits. After some attempts to revive the brand, rights to Hawk Model were finally acquired by ...

  4. Frog (models) - Wikipedia

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    Frog was a well-known British brand of flying model aircraft and scale model construction kits from the 1930s to the 1970s. The company's first model, an Interceptor Mk. 4, was launched in 1932, followed in 1936 by a range of 1:72 scale model aircraft kits made from cellulose acetate, which were the world's first.

  5. Rolls-Royce Dart - Wikipedia

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    A Rolls-Royce Dart mounted on a Fokker F27 Friendship Rolls-Royce Darts on a Vickers Viscount. Largely associated with the very successful Vickers Viscount medium-range airliner, it powered a number of other European and Japanese designs of the 1950s and 60s and was also used to convert American-manufactured piston aircraft to turboprop power ...

  6. Vickers Viscount variants - Wikipedia

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    Vickers 773 Viscount in about 1958 Production variant for Iraqi Airways with Dart 506 engines and 48 seats, one built, delivered in November 1957. [4] Type 774 Production variant for Saudi Arabia with Dart 510s, not built. [5] Type 775 Production variant for Yugoslavia with Dart 510s, not built. [5] Type 776

  7. List of preserved Vickers aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Last Vickers Valiant ever built. Cockpit in preservation [6] [7] XD826 1956 December 15th, 1956 December 1964 Royal Air Force: Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England: On static display Cockpit only [8] [9] XD857 1957 January 5th, 1957 February 19th, 1965 Royal Air Force: Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum at Flixton, Suffolk ...

  8. Vickers-Armstrongs - Wikipedia

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    Vickers was a pioneer in producing airliners, early examples being converted from Vimy bombers. Post-WWII, Vickers went on to manufacture the piston-engined Vickers VC.1 Viking airliner, the Viscount and Vanguard turboprop airliners and (as part of BAC) the VC10 jet airliner, which was used in RAF service as an aerial refuelling tanker until 2013.

  9. Vickers Vanguard - Wikipedia

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    The Vickers Vanguard was a short/medium-range turboprop airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs.. The Vanguard was developed during the mid-to-late 1950s in response to a specification issued by British European Airways (BEA) for a 100-seat airliner; Vickers decided to design such an airliner as a follow-up to the existing Viscount series, the ...