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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 ...
Both aircraft crashed in Ankara, killing all 14 on board the Viscount, all three on board the C-47 and a further 87 people on the ground. [60] On 17 February 1963, Vickers 807 Viscount, ZK-BWO, "City of Dunedin" of the National Airways Corporation overran the southern end of the runway at Wellington New Zealand, sliding down onto Moa Point Road ...
Production aircraft for US airline Capital Airlines. The first nine used Dart 506s; the remainder had Dart 510s. Aircraft had 48 seats and a forward integral airstair, 60 built, first delivered in November 1955. [4] Type 747 Production aircraft for Butler Air Transport with Dart 506s and 40 seats, two built, first delivered in September 1955 ...
The Flight 825 aircraft was a Vickers Viscount 782D, a British-made turboprop aircraft with two engines on each wing. It was named the Hunyani after the river of the same name, which flowed between Lake Kariba and the Rhodesian capital Salisbury. [26]
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 ...
The aircraft was a Vickers Viscount 720C manufactured in 1954 and assigned serial number 45. It was immediately acquired by Trans Australia Airlines and entered airline service in Australia as VH-TVB. In 1959 it appeared at that year's Farnborough Airshow. It was sold to Ansett-ANA in 1962 and re-registered as VH-RMQ. In September 1968 the ...
The pilot in command of Flight 300 was Captain Kendall Brady, age 38. He had a valid airman certificate and was rated to fly single/multi-engine land aircraft, as well as the Douglas DC-3, DC-4, and the Vickers Viscount. Hired by Capital Airlines on 11 June 1945, Brady's total flying hours were 12,719 with 1,432 of those in the Viscount. [2]
United Airlines Flight 823 was a scheduled flight from Philadelphia International Airport, Pennsylvania, to Huntsville International Airport, Alabama, with 39 on board.On July 9, 1964, around 18:15 EST, the aircraft, a Vickers Viscount 745D, registration N7405, [2] crashed 2.25 mi (3.62 km) northeast of Parrottsville, Tennessee, after experiencing an uncontrollable fire on board, killing all ...