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February 1967 to July 1972
Channel Airways
G-AVHK - c/n 359 - a V.812 series Viscount
United Kingdom registered
19 February 1967
Delivered to Southend Airport, Rochford, Essex, England still marked as N246V.
21 February 1967
Re-registered to Channel Airways.
20 March 1967
Air tested after an overhaul and repaint in Channel livery.
22 March 1967
UK Certificate of Airworthiness issued.
The integral front 'airsteps' were not removed from this aircraft (or C/N 360 and 363), unlike others in the fleet from Continental.
22 March 1967
First service from Southend, Rochford, Essex, England to Lohausen Airport, Düsseldorf, West Germany.
Channel Airways 'Scottish Flyer' livery
January 1969
Painted up with 'Scottish Flyer' titles to operate the Southend Airport, Rochford, Essex, England to Aberdeen, Scotland 'bus-stop' service via Luton Airport, Bedfordshire, East Midlands Airport, Castle Donington, Leeds / Bradford Airport, Yeadon, Yorkshire, Teesside Airport, County Durham, Woolsington Airport, Newcastle and Turnhouse Airport, Edinburgh.
20 January 1969
Operated the first 'Scottish Flyer' service returning to Southend Airport, Rochford, Essex, England the following day.
28 April 1970
Noted at Middelkirke Airport, Ostend, Belgium on a training flight.
19 May 1970
Final flight from Lohausen Airport, Düsseldorf, Germany to Rochford, Southend, Essex, England and withdrawn from service and stored.
Total time 29,519 hours.
Scrapping commenced
21 March 1971
Certificate of Airworthiness expired.
29 February 1972
Channel Airways ceased all operations due to financial problems.
19 June 1972
Scrapping commenced.
July 1972
Remains taken away.
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