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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 25 - G-AMOL

Photo of Cambrian Airways Viscount G-AMOL c/n 25
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G-AMOL - Cambrian Airways - April 1963 to July 1965

Purchased from British European Airways (BEA). Taken at Speke Airport, Liverpool, England in February 1964.

Note the additional cabin window which was introduced by BEA as part of a high density seating configuration.

Photo source - Bob O'Brien collection


Aircraft Summary

This aircraft c/n 25, a V.701, was built for British European Airways Corporation (BEA) as G-AMOL and first flew on Tuesday, 8 December 1953 at Weybridge, Surrey, England. During it's life it was also owned and/or operated by British European Airways Corporation (BEA)

Its final owner/operator was Cambrian Airways. Its fate: Crashed during a radar assisted approach to runway 26 at Speke Airport, Liverpool, England in poor weather during an empty positioning flight from Ronaldsway, Isle of Man on the 20 July 1965.

The aircraft went out of control during the final stage of the approach to land. It rolled over onto its back and crashed inverted through the Thompson & Capper 'Mothak's Ltd' factory roof and caught fire. Little remained of the aircraft which was recovered in a Queen Mary articulated truck back to the airport for investigation.


History and photos of Viscount c/n 25 G-AMOL
Cambrian Airways Viscount fleet list and photos
United Kingdom issued Viscount registrations


Photo of BEA - British European Airways Viscount G-AOJC

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