
January 1959 to February 1972
South African Airways (SAA)
ZS-CDY - c/n 351 - a V.813 series Viscount
South Africa registered
November 1956
Registered to South African Airways (SAA) / Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
22 December 1958
First flight from Hurn Airport, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.
30 December 1958
Noted at Gatwick Airport, Surrey, England carrying out a single ILS approach and overshoot.
2 January 1959
Noted at Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, England carrying out multiple ILS approaches and overshoots.
10 January 1959
Delivered to South African Airways (SAA) named as 'Gemsbok''.
Originally it had SAA titles in Afrikaans on the starboard side and English on the port side but this was later changed to various combinations.
19 January 1959
Entered SAA service.
from 1962
Painted in the new SAA 'orange tail' livery which was first introduced on the Boeing 707 in 1960.
Later SAA livery
January 1969
SAA changed its registration policy and was allocated registration blocks in the ZS-S** range.
Registration ZS-SBY was not taken up as the South African DCA would not allow SAA to change the registrations on its existing Viscount fleet.
This policy was later changed, but came too late for the Viscount fleet as it was nearly time for them to be disposed of.
29 January 1972
Operated its last SAA service from Windhoek, Keetmanshoop, Upington and Kimberley to Johannesburg as SA742.
Withdrawn from SAA service and stored at Jan Smuts International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Total time 25,779 hours.
1 February 1972
Sold to British Midland Airways (BMA).
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