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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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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 169 - G-AOHU

Photo of British European Airways Corporation (BEA) Viscount G-AOHU c/n 169
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G-AOHU - British European Airways Corporation (BEA) - July 1957 to March 1960

Delivered new to British European Airways (BEA) named 'R M A Sir George Strong Nares'. Taken at London Airport (Heathrow), Middlesex, England 20 January 1960 after a recent landing accident and subsequent fire.

It has now been wrapped up and pushed outside awaiting the insurance settlement.

Photo source - Richard Stanton collection


Aircraft Summary

This aircraft c/n 169, a V.802, was built for British European Airways Corporation (BEA) as G-AOHU and first flew on Friday, 28 June 1957 at Weybridge, Surrey, England.

Its final owner/operator was British European Airways Corporation (BEA). Its fate: After touchdown in fog at London Airport (Heathrow), Middlesex, England on a service from Collinstown Airport, Dublin, Ireland 7 January 1960, the nose undercarriage leg collapsed. The plane skidded 500 yards down the runway before coming to rest. A fire erupted in the nose section and almost destroyed the whole aircraft. The cause was put down to Air Traffic Control not informing the Captain of a critical deterioration in runway visiblility resulting in a heavy landing, nosewheel first, which overstressed the nose gear fracturing its attachments. Broken up for scrap circa March 1960.


History and photos of Viscount c/n 169 G-AOHU
British European Airways Corporation (BEA) Viscount fleet list and photos
United Kingdom issued Viscount registrations


Photo of BEA - British European Airways Viscount G-AOJC

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