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Viscount c/n 271

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Below are the 12 photos we have on file for Viscount c/n 271 together with either the actual date that the photo was taken or an estimate of that date based on clues such as the livery worn or other background information.

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Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA)
CF-THK
September 1957

Delivered new to Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) with fleet number '629'. Taken at Winnipeg Airport, Manitoba, Canada in September 1957.

Photo source - Jim Bruce collection

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Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA)
CF-THK
September 1957

Delivered new to Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) with fleet number '629'. Taken at Winnipeg Airport, Manitoba, Canada in September 1957.

Photo source - Jim Bruce collection

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Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA)
CF-THK
December 1958

Delivered new to Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) with fleet number '629'. Taken during a typical Canadian winter at an unknown location in December 1958.

The aircraft now has the fleet number on the nosewheel undercarriage doors.

The photographer has taken the picture from underneath a Lockheed Constellation.

Photo source - British Columbia Aviation Museum collection

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Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA)
CF-THK
June 1959

Delivered new to Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) with fleet number '629'. Taken at Winnipeg Airport, Manitoba, Canada circa July 1958, now with a white top to the fuselage.

TCA Photo Ref 5625

Photo source - Robert W Arnold collection

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Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA)
CF-THK
September 1959

Delivered new to Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) with fleet number '629'. Taken at an unknown location in September 1959.

Photo source - Brian R Burrage collection (gallery 1)

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Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA)
CF-THK
September 1962

Delivered new to Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) with fleet number '629'. Taken at an unknown location circa September 1962.

Photo source - Peter Gates collection

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Air Canada
CF-THK
September 1964

Transferred from Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) due to a corporate name change retaining fleet number '629'. Taken landing at Windsor Airport, Ontario, Canada in September 1964.

Note that the No.4 Rolls-Royce Dart engine has been shut down and that the propeller has been moved to the 'feathered' position.

Photo source - Bernie King collection

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Air Canada
CF-THK
January 1965

Transferred from Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) due to a corporate name change retaining fleet number '629'. Taken at a snowy Dorval International Airport, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada 30 January 1965, still in its TCA 'white top' livery.

It took several years to repaint the fleet in Air Canada livery.

Photo Ref FRP003

Photo source - Fred H Prior collection

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Air Canada
CF-THK
September 1965

Transferred from Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) due to a corporate name change retaining fleet number '629'. Taken at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois, USA circa September 1965.

Photo source - Brian R Burrage collection (gallery 2)

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Air Canada
CF-THK
June 1968

Transferred from Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) due to a corporate name change retaining fleet number '629'. Taken landing at Malton Airport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada in June 1968.

Photo source - Bernie King collection

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Air Canada
CF-THK
March 1969

Transferred from Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) due to a corporate name change retaining fleet number '629'. Taken at Dorval International Airport, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada in March 1969.

A month later it made an emergency landing at Sept-Iles and was written off.

Note that the fleet number on the tail is now in white instead of black, presumably to make it more visible from a distance.

Photo source - Werner Fischdick

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Air Canada
CF-THK
April 1969

Transferred from Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) due to a corporate name change retaining fleet number '629'. Taken at Sept-Îles Airport, Province of Quebec, Canada 8 April 1969 the day after the landing incident.

You can see the extent of the fire which only left the rear fuselage and tail intact together with the starboard wings and engine nacelles.

The fire started in the port wing and soon spread.

Photo source - Bob Bishop via Mike Goldsmith

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Photo of BEA - British European Airways Viscount G-AOJC

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