April 1967 to April 1971
Falconair Charter AB
SE-CNM - c/n 324 - a V.784D series Viscount
Sweden registered
17 April 1967
Re-registered for Falconair Sweden AB.
18 May 1967
Swedish Certificate of Airworthiness (CofA) number 2368 issued and aircraft issued with C of R number 2258.
28 May 1967
First service for Falconair to Cointrin Airport, Geneva, Switzerland.
17 July 1967
Arrived at Gatwick Airport, Surrey, England on its first visit.
4 April 1968
During a positioning flight the aircraft landed at Seutula Airport, Helsinki, Finland and veered to the left and despite the crew trying to correct it with opposite rudder, steering and brakes it ran off the side of the runway and collided with a snow embankment.
The nose undercarriage leg was torn off and all four propellers were curled resulting in shockload damage to the Rolls-Royce Dart engines.
The accident was found to be caused by a component failure within the No.3 propeller system which prevented it from providing any braking action and forced the aircraft to sharply turn to port.
There were no reported injuries to the 4 crew and 1 cabin occupant on board.
27 June 1968
After repairs the aircraft was issued with a temporary permit to fly and carried out a local test flight.
7 July 1968
Ferried to Bulltofta Airport, Malmö, Sweden, still under the temporary permit to fly.
8 July 1968
Test flown for Certificate of Airworthiness (CofA) renewal.
30 June 1970
Certificate of Airworthiness (CofA) expired.
The aircraft was withdrawn from service and stored at Bulltofta Airport, Malmö, Sweden.
1 April 1971
Sold to Malmö Aero AB.
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