July 1957 to April 1958
Eagle Airways Ltd
G-APDW - c/n 258 - a V.805 series Viscount
United Kingdom registered
circa 1955
This was the 1st V.805 ordered by Eagle Airways Ltd and was originally going to be built as C/N 311.
Production Aircraft No. 41 - the 31st production V.800 series Viscount built,
was the 32nd V.800 Viscount fuselage assembled at Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England,
and the 41st V.800 Viscount assembled at Weybridge, Surrey, England.
Production Order No. F01/805. Sales Order No. F01/23C. Stock Order No. F16/33B.
30 April 1957
Fuselage assembly commenced at Hurn Airport, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.
June 1957
Fuselage transported by road from Hurn Airport, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England to Weybridge, Surrey, England.
19 June 1957
Fuselage to Erecting Shop 'E' at Weybridge, Surrey, England.
4 July 1957
Registered to Eagle Airways Ltd. Certificate of Registration (CofR) 6068/1.
Their registered address was Marble Arch House, 32/50 Edgware Road, London W.2.
It was then completed during construction as a V.805 instead of the V.806 standard as it was originally being built for British European Airways (BEA).
British European Airways (BEA) took over C/N 311 as their replacement, which became G-AOYH.
2 December 1957
First flight from Brooklands Airfield, Weybridge, Surrey, England.
It landed at Wisley Airfield, Surrey, England for fitting out and test flying as the Brooklands runway was too short for a fully fitted out aircraft.
19 December 1957
Acceptance test flight successfully carried out under the contract guidance of Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell (1 hr).
It was then fomerly handed over to Eagle Airways Ltd named as 'Enterprise'.
This was the first aircraft that the company had purchased new and was the first Viscount to join the fleet.
Two training flights were then conducted from Wisley under the contract guidance of Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell (3 hour 5 min and 1 hr 20 min).
The Eagle pilots under training were Captains Henderson and Watkins.
22 December 1957
One more training flight with Eagle Captain Henderson was conducted from Wisley under the contract guidance of Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell (2 hr 10 min).
23 December 1957
Delivered to Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, England (45 min).
24 December 1957
Departed from Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, England at 09:50 on its first revenue service to Hamburg, West Germany under the contract guidance of Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell which lasted for 2 hours 10 minutes.
The Eagle pilots were Captains Henderson, Stevenson and Watkins.
It returned to Blackbushe from Hamburg, West Germany at 16:00 (2 hr 5 min).
25 December 1957
Departed from Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, England at 10:10 on a service to Munich, West Germany under the contract guidance of Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell which lasted for 2 hours 35 minutes.
The Eagle pilots were Captains Henderson and Watkins.
31 December 1957
Noted at Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, England carrying out crew training flights under the contract guidance of Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell.
These flights continued through to 2 January 1958.
4 January 1958
Departed from Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, England to Lisbon, Portugal (4 hr 15 min) and Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spanish Territory (3 hr) under the contract guidance of Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell.
The Eagle pilots were Captains Perrett and Watkins.
5 January 1958
Noted back at Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, England carrying out crew training flights under the contract guidance of Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell.
18 January 1958
Departed from Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, England to Munich, West Germany (2 hr 20 min) and return (2 hr 45 min) under the contract guidance by Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell.
21, 22, 23, 24, 25 January 1958
Noted at Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, England carrying out crew training flights under the contract guidance of Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell.
2 February 1958
Departed from Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, England to Manchester (1 hr) under the contract guidance of Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell.
3 February 1958
Departed from Ringway Airport, Manchester to Hamburg, West Germany (1 hr 50 min) and Copenhagen, Denmark (55 min) under the contract guidance of Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell. It then returned to Blackbushe following the same route.
4 February 1958
Noted at Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, England carrying out crew training flights under the contract guidance of Hunting-Clan Chief Flying Instructor Brian Alexander Powell.
26 March 1958
Total time 364 hours and 352 total landings.
8 April 1958
UK registration cancelled as aircraft exported.
8 April 1958
Transferred to Eagle Airways (Bermuda) Ltd.
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