29 November 2023
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Viscount Survivors


59 of the 444 Viscounts built survive as complete airframes or major components. Some are in very good condition and are looked after by museums while others are just wrecks. They can be found in 24 countries.

Viscount history


Discover the history of the Viscount with film, video, contemporary reports from the pages of Flight Magazine, our newsletters, and aircraft operational records and photos from our database.


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Established 2005
Vickers Viscount Network
A Virtual Museum dedicated to the Vickers-Armstrongs VC2 Viscount

Viscounts registrations by country

TAA - Trans-Australia Airlines Viscount c/n 48 VH-TVE
Australia issued 36 registrations

Viscounts have been registered in 81 countries




Viscounts have been registered in 81 countries since the 1950s with the United Kingdom issuing 230 and Equatorial Guinea issuing only one.


Country

Displayed will be all the Viscount registrations issued in the selected country together with the first owner or operator to use each registration. NOTE: Some aircraft may have had more that one registration issued to it.

Featured aircraft - c/n 50 - CF-TGM

Photo of Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) Viscount CF-TGM c/n 50
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Canada


CF-TGM - Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) - March 1955 to March 1964

Delivered new to Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) with fleet number '605'. Taken at Dorval International Airport, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada 9 February 1962.

After departing from Toronto on a flight to Ottawa the flight crew discovered that there was a malfunction to the port main undercarriage.

Captain C P 'Chuck' Kenworthy elected to divert to Montreal where there were more facilities and landed with the starboard and nosewheel legs down and locked.

Note the curled port propellers resulting in shockload damage to the Dart engines.

The damage to the airframe was minimal.

La Presse Montreal Press Cutting

Photo source - Alain St-Pierre


Aircraft Summary

This aircraft c/n 50, a V.724, was built for Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) as CF-TGM and first flew on Tuesday, 15 March 1955 at Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. During it's life it was also owned and/or operated by William C Wold & Associates

Its final owner/operator was Air Inter (Lignes Aériennes Intérieures). Its fate: Crashed into Mount Pic du Picon on approach to Aulnat Airport, Clermont-Ferrand, Southern France.


History and photos of Viscount c/n 50 CF-TGM
Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) Viscount fleet list and photos
Canada issued Viscount registrations


Photo of BEA - British European Airways Viscount G-AOJC

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