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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 ...
Originally had a either 40 or 47 seats but this was changed in the 1960s to seat either 60 or 63 passengers, 27 built, first delivered in January 1953. [4] Type 702 Production aircraft for British West Indian Airways (BWIA) with Dart 506 with 44 or 53 seats, four built, first delivered in June 1955. [4] Type 703 Proposed 53-seat variant, not ...
De Havilland DH.53 Humming Bird: 45/23 Two-seater Fighter Reconnaissance Landplane Vickers Venture: 1/24 Three-seat fleet reconnaissance seaplane and amphibian Parnall Pike, Short S.6 Sturgeon, Bristol Type 87 2/24 Light aeroplane Cancelled 3/24 Single-seat high-performance landplane Hawker Woodcock II (production) 4/24
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 operating the flight was a Vickers Viscount, Makers Serial Number (MSN) 394. It was built in 1958 for Misrair, the Egyptian airline, and sold to British Eagle International Airlines on September 3, 1965. [3] Upon purchase it was registered as G-AFTN and named “City of Truro".
The wing of the Vickers Viscount used a single main spar made up of a centre section in the fuselage, two inner sections and two outer sections. The main spar comprised an upper boom, a shear web and a lower boom. The aircraft was designed and type-certificated to the principle of a safe-life. Before a component reaches its safe-life it must be ...
July 17 – During a flight from Havana, Cuba, to Miami, Florida, with 56 people on board, the captain of a Cubana de Aviación Vickers Viscount draws a gun and forces the copilot to fly the airliner to Kingston, Jamaica, where he demands political asylum. [17]
On 22 December 1959, a VASP Vickers Viscount 827 registration PP-SRG while on approach to land at Rio de Janeiro-Galeão was involved in a mid-air collision with the Brazilian Air Force Fokker S-11 (T-21) registration FAB0742 in the vicinity of Manguinhos Airport. All 32 people on board the Viscount were killed, as were a further ten on the ground.