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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 152 - G-AOJC

Photo of British European Airways Corporation (BEA) Viscount G-AOJC c/n 152
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G-AOJC - British European Airways Corporation (BEA) - January 1957 to July 1973

Delivered new to British European Airways (BEA) named 'R M A Robert O'Hara Burke'. Taken arriving at London Airport (Heathrow), Middlesex, England circa July 1957.

The outboard Rolls-Royce Dart engines have already been shut down.

Photo source - Ragnarok31 (flickr)


Aircraft Summary

This aircraft c/n 152, a V.802, was built for British European Airways Corporation (BEA) as G-AOJC and first flew on Wednesday, 7 November 1956 at Weybridge, Surrey, England. During it's life it was also owned and/or operated by British Airways (BA), Wales Aircraft Museum.

Its final owner/operator was Spoors & Prive. Its fate: Ferried to Rhoose Airport, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales and withdrawn from service by British Airways (BA) 10 October 1975. Registration cancelled as aircraft permanently withdrawn from use 31 October 1975.

Donated to the South Wales Aircraft Preservation Society (SWAPS) for display at the Wales Aircraft Museum circa January 1976. Painted in Cambrian Airways final livery of orange upper fuselage, white window line and grey underside in 1978, even though the aircraft was never operated by Cambrian.

Noted painted up in a poor rendition of the BEA 'Red Square' livery in December 1993.

Dismantled after the closure of the Wales Aircraft Museum circa June 1996.

The fuselage less the tail was transferred to Spoors & Prive at Enstone, Oxfordshire.

Noted chopped up 30 March 1997 with only the forward fuselage section remaining at the airfield.

The forward fuselage section was reported in the Wrecks & Relics book Volume 16 (April 1998) as going to a 'watery grave'.

Does anyone know if this went to a diving school somewhere, as happened to G-AWXI C/N 339?


History and photos of Viscount c/n 152 G-AOJC
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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