
September 1970 to December 1998
Merpati Nusantara Airlines (MNA)
PK-MVG - c/n 445 - a V.828 series Viscount
Indonesia registered
24 September 1970
Purchased from All Nippon Airways (ANA) and named as 'Ganeca'. Merpati means Dove (or Pigeon) in Malay and Nusantara means 'of the Indonesian Islands'
It was originally allocated registration PK-MVU but for some reason this was not taken up.
4 November 1970
Total time 17,774:31 hours.
17 September 1974
Total time 22,247 hours and 18,292 total landings.
23 April 1977
Total time 25,707 hours and 20,155 total landings.
Since the last figures in September 1974 the aircraft has flown 3460 hours and 1863 landings which means an average flight time of 1.85 hours and an average monthly utilisation of 108 hours which would be the minimum utilisation as there would be periods when it was grounded for scheduled maintenance.
25 February 1981
Departed from Jakarta, Indonesia to Manila, Philippines in its way to Taiwan for maintenance. This sector took 8 hours and 17 minutes with 3 landings.
26 February 1981
Arrived at Taipei,Taiwan for overhaul and repaint in a later livery before Certificate of Airworthiness (CofA) renewal with Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT).
This sector took 3 hours and 20 minutes with 2 landings.
20 April 1981
Air tested after overhaul with Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT) which lasted for 30 mintes.
20 April 1981
Departed from Taipei,Taiwan to Manila, Philippines in its way back to Merpati. This sector took 3 hours and 17 minutes with 2 landings.
21 April 1981
Arrived at Jakarta, Indonesia from Manila, Philippines in its way back to Merpati. This sector took 6 hours and 11 minutes with 3 landings.
16 April 1984
Noted renamed as ' Siberut' which is one of the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia.
11 January 1985
Overran after landing at Medan Airport, Maluku Island, Indonesia.
During the approach the hydraulics failed and the pilot elected to land on the grass to the right of the runway to assist in the stopping of the aircraft which resulted in the collapse of the port undercarriage leg and damage to the port propellers and shockloading of the Rolls-Royce Dart RDa7 Mark 525F engines.
There were no serious injuries to the 5 crew and 13 passengers on board.
Repaired and returned to service.
circa July 1989
Withdrawn from service and stored at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Cengkareng, Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. The actual date is not known. Details please to information@vickersviscount.net
29 July 1989
Certificate of Airworthiness (CofA) expired.
April 1992
Noted still stored but now minus its Rolls-Royce Dart engines.
4 December 1997
Last noted still stored.
circa 1998
Broken up for scrap. The actual date is not known. Details please to information@vickersviscount.net
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