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Viscount c/n 278

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Below are the 10 photos we have on file for Viscount c/n 278 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-THR
June 1961

Delivered new to Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) with fleet number '636'. Taken at Philadelphia Airport, Pennsylvania, USA circa June 1961.

A large group of golfers from the London Hunt & Country Club, London, Ontario, Canada chartered this Viscount in order to play golf in the USA. They flew from London, Ontario to Philadelphia Airport, Pennsylvania, USA and transferred by road to the Pine Valley Golf Club at 1 East Atlantic Avenue, New Jersey, USA.

Photo source - Colin Brown

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Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA)
CF-THR
December 1963

Delivered new to Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) with fleet number '636'. Taken at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 22 December 1963.

Photo source - Clinton H Groves collection (ATP)

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Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA)
CF-THR
February 1964

Delivered new to Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) with fleet number '636'. Taken at Dorval International Airport, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada 11 February 1964.

Photo Ref FRP012

Photo source - Fred H Prior collection

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Air Canada
CF-THR
June 1966

Transferred from Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) due to a corporate name change retaining fleet number '636'. Taken at Dorval International Airport, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada in June 1966.

Photo source - Brian R Burrage collection (gallery 2)

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Air Canada
CF-THR
June 1968

Transferred from Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) due to a corporate name change retaining fleet number '636'. Taken departing from Malton Airport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada in June 1968.

Photo source - Trevor Ogle collection

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Air Canada
CF-THR
December 1969

Transferred from Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) due to a corporate name change retaining fleet number '636'. Taken at John F Kennedy Airport, New York, USA in December 1969.

Photo source - Vernon Murphy collection

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Air Canada
CF-THR
December 1969

Transferred from Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) due to a corporate name change retaining fleet number '636'. Taken departing from John F Kennedy Airport, New York, USA in December 1969.

Photo source - Vernon Murphy collection

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Air Canada
CF-THR
July 1970

Transferred from Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) due to a corporate name change retaining fleet number '636'. Taken at an unknown location in July 1970.

Photo source - Brian R Burrage collection (gallery 2)

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Air Canada
CF-THR
July 1971

Transferred from Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) due to a corporate name change retaining fleet number '636'. Taken at Malton Airport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada in July 1971.

Photo source - Allan Gray

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Beaver Enterprises Ltd
CF-THR
May 1975

Purchased from Air Canada. Taken stored at Winnipeg Airport, Manitoba, Canada in May 1975 minus its Rolls-Royce Dart RDa3 Mark 506 engines.

The aircraft behind is CF-THC (C/N 220).

It is not known when this aircraft was scrapped.

Details please to information@vickersviscount.net

Photo source - Ed Jones collection

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Photo of BEA - British European Airways Viscount G-AOJC

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