10 October 2025
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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.

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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.


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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 350 - G-AZNA

Photo of British Midland Airways (BMA) Viscount G-AZNA c/n 350
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G-AZNA - British Midland Airways (BMA) - October 1984 to October 1985

Returned from Manx Airlines lease. Taken at East Midlands Airport, Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England 10 October 1984 now back in BMA service but still in Manx livery which must have confused the passengers!

Photo source - Kerry Taylor


Aircraft Summary

This aircraft c/n 350, a V.813, was built for South African Airways (SAA) as ZS-CDX and first flew on Sunday, 7 December 1958 at Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. During it's life it was also owned and/or operated by British Midland Airways (BMA), Manx Airlines, British Aerospace PLC (BAe), STH Sales Ltd, Hot Air, Ligacoes Aereas Regionais (LAR), Gambia Air Shuttle and British Air Ferries (BAF)

Its final owner/operator was N9 Dancing Kokoriko. Its fate: Withdrawn from service by British Air Ferries (BAF) and stored at Southend Airport, Rochford, Essex, England in October 1990. Registered to STH Sales Ltd. in January 1991.

Sold to Roger Kerremans, the owner of N9 Dancing 'Kokoriko' discotheque / night club 15 September 1992. Transferred by road to his facility near Zomergem, Belgium, next to the N9 road between Eeklo and Ghent and mounted on poles with its undercarriage lowered in an all white livery still with the name 'Viscount Banjul' on the port side of the nose. Fitted with poorly shaped dummy propellers. Two delivery trucks damaged the aircraft, with one punching a hole in the weather radar nose dome and another breaking off one of the wooden propeller blades on the No.3 engine 7 February 2023.


History and photos of Viscount c/n 350 G-AZNA
British Midland Airways (BMA) Viscount fleet list and photos
United Kingdom issued Viscount registrations


Photo of BEA - British European Airways Viscount G-AOJC

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