Owner or operator Viscount fleet lists
BEA - British European Airways Corporation
Records for all owner or operators are available
Over 570 owners and operators have been involved with the Viscount. Some like Capital Airlines (USA) and BEA -
British European Airways Corporation operated many while others like Air Anglia operated only one.
Viscounts operated by large airlines who had their aircraft for many years will have painted them in several
different versions of their livery.
Owner or operator
1092 Squadron ATC
318975 Ontario Ltd
515489 Ontario Ltd
Aden Airways
Aer Lingus
Aero Clube De São Paulo
Aero Clube Rio Claro
Aero Flite Inc
Aero Jet Services Inc
Aero Sierra de Durango S.A.
Aéro-Club de Mulhouse
Aeroclube de Brasil
Aeroelectronica
Aeroeslava
Aeroleasing & Sales Ltd
Aerolineas Condor
Aerolineas Republica
Aerolineas Taxi Aéreo Opita (TAO)
Aeropark
Aeropesca Colombia
Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment
Aerovias del Cesar / Aerocesar Colombia
Air Algerie
Air Anglia
Air Botswana
Air Bridge Carriers Ltd (ABC)
Air Canada
Air Capital Aircraft Sales Inc
Air Caravane
Air Cardinal
Air Caribbean
Air Charter Service (ACS)
Air Classik Museum
Air Commerz
Air Ferry Ltd
Air France
Air Inter (Lignes Aériennes Intérieures)
Air International Charter Company (Gibraltar) Ltd
Air Kasai
Air Lao
Air Malawi
Air Ogooue
Air Rent Inc
Air Rhodesia
Air Service Training (Perth) Ltd
Air Tourisme Alpine (ATA)
Air Transport Leasing Corporation
Air UK
Air Ulster
Air Viet Nam
Air Zimbabwe
Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia
Aircraft Engine Maintenance Corporation
Aircraft Restoration & Marketing (ARM)
Airgo Inc
Airwing 2000 Ltd
Airwork London Ltd
Airwork Services Ltd
Airworld of Houston Texas
Albatros Flugmuseum
Alda Corporation
Alexandra Aviation Ltd
Alfred Homann
Alfred James Spencer
Ali Finance Ltd
Alia - The Royal Jordanian Airlines
Alidair
Alitalia
All Nippon Airways (ANA)
Aloha Airlines
American Airlease
American International Jet Leasing
Anadolu University - School of Civil Aviation
Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd
Ansett-ANA
Aqua Avia Society
Arkia - Israel Inland Airlines Ltd
Arlanda Airport Fire Service
Asia Aviation Services
Associated Products of America
Atlantic Gulf Airlines
Atlas Air System
Australian Aircraft Sales (NSW) Pty Ltd (AAS)
Australian Aviation Restoration Group (AARG)
Australian National Aviation Museum
Austrian Air Transport
Austrian Airlines (AUA)
Auto und Technik Museum
Aviaco
Aviation Equipment Corporation
Aviation Equipment, Spares & Service
Aviation Hire & Travel Pty Ltd
Aviation Overhauls Ltd
BAF (NZ) Limited
BAF Air Tours
Bahamas Airways
Bahamas Development Corporation
Baltic Airlines (Sweden)
Baltic Airlines (UK)
Bank of America
Barney Lamm
Bass Aviation Inc
Bazair
Beaver Enterprises Ltd
Becco Trading Corporation
Bendix Corporation
Bill Walker & Associates
Birmingham Airport Fire Service
BKS Air Transport Ltd
Blaw-Knox Corporation
BOAC Associated Companies Ltd
Bobby K Green
Booth Leasing Corporation
Boston Leasing Corporation
Botswana National Airways (BNA)
Bouraq Indonesia Airlines
Bournemouth Aviation Museum
Braathens S.A.F.E. Airtransport A/S
Brazosport Bank of Texas
Brins Finance Corporation
British & Commonwealth Shipping Company (Aviation) Ltd
British Aerospace (BAe)
British Air Ferries (BAF)
British Aircraft Corporation (BAC)
British Airways (BA)
British Caledonian Airways (BCAL)
British Columbia Aviation Museum (BCAM)
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
British Eagle (Bermuda) Ltd
British Eagle International Airlines
British European Airways Corporation (BEA)
British International Air Lines Ltd
British Midland Airways (BMA)
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)
British United Airways (BUA)
British West Indian Overseas Airways (BWIA)
British World Airlines (BWA)
Brooklands Museum
Brownsville Airport Emergency Services
Burma Airways Corporation
Bursa Hava Yollari
Butler Air Transport Pty Ltd
Caicos International Airways
California Airmotive Inc
Cambrian Airways
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Canada Aviation Museum
Canadian Department of Transport
Canadian Inspection & Test Company
Canadian Schenley Ltd
Capital Airlines (UK)
Capital Airlines (USA)
Cardiff Airport Fire Service
Caribbean Express
Carlos Alfredo Gudiño
Cathedral of Tomorrow Inc
Cavalier Aircraft Corporation
Cecil Jones Comprehensive School
Central African Airways (CAA)
Central Training Establishment
Centro de Enseñanza Técnica Aeronáutica de Canarias (CETAC)
Channel Airways
Charlie Rich Enterprises Inc
Charlotte Aircraft Corporation
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chelmer Transport Hauliers
Chemical Bank
China Aviation Museum (中国航空博物馆)
Chinese Air Force
Chisick Metal
Cimarron Industries Ltd
City of Araçariguama
City of Piracicaba
Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC)
Civil Aviation Authority Fire Training School
Clanair Ltd
Clara Strauss Abad
Cockpits for Hire
Colin Jacobs
Combs Aircraft Inc
Comision Federal de Electricidad
Commemorative Air Force
Commerce International
Compania Cubana de Aviación S.A.
Concorde Supermarket
Condor Flugdienst GmbH
Confederate Air Force
Conroy Aircraft Inc
Consolidated Aviation Holding Pty Ltd
Continental Airlines
Continental Oil Drilling
Copeland Evangelistic Association
Crown Assets Disposal Corporation
Cunard Eagle (Bermuda) Ltd
Cunard Eagle Airways Ltd
Cyprus Airways
D B Lindsay
D L & J R Haralson
Da Vu Aviation Inc
Dan-Air London
Danish Air Charter
Dave Walkley
David J Gower
Defence Research Agency (DRA)
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Distribute Air Inc
DMI Aviation
Don Fyk
Dowty Aerospace
Duco Paints
Dusseldorf Airport Authority
Duxford Aviation Society (DAS)
Eagle Airways (Bermuda) Ltd
Eagle Airways Ltd
East African Airways Corporation (EAAC)
East Coast Leasing Inc
East Midlands Airport Fire Service
Ecole Nationale d'Aerotechnique (ENA)
Eduardo André Matarazzo
Eldee Inc
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Empire Test Pilots School (ETPS)
Essendon Airport Fire Department
Essex International Inc
Essex Wire Corporation Inc
Esso Standard Oil Company
E-Systems Inc
Euroair Transport
Ewell K Nold Jr
Express Air Services (EAS)
Falconair Charter AB
Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT)
Farm & Agricultural Disposals
Ferrymead Aeronautical Society Inc
Fideliity Management Corporation
Field Aircraft Services Ltd
Field Aviation (South Africa) Ltd
Field Aviation Ltd
Filair
Flightspares Ltd
Flugausstellung Aviation Museum
Flugzeug Restaurant Silbervogel
Flying Pot Restaurant
Fondation Aerovision Quebec (FAQ)
Fôrça Aérea Brasileira (FAB)
Francesco De Pinedo Aeronautical Technical Institute
Fred Olsen Flyselskap A/S
Fred S Brown Enterprises
Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya (Uruguayan Air Force)
Fundacao Museu de Tecnologia São Paulo
Gambia Air Shuttle
Garnish Best Ltd
Gates Aviation Corporation
Gates Aviation Turbine Propeller Sales
GB Airways
General Numbi
Ghana Airways
Gibraltar Airways Ltd
Global Airways (D.R. Congo)
Global Airways (Swaziland)
Go Group Inc
Go Group Unlimited Inc
Go Transportation Inc
Gold Coast Military Museum
Goulet Enterprises
Grekenheimer Productions Inc
Grupo Cydsa
Grupo Madero S.A. Inc
GTRA Airways
Guernsey Airlines
Guila Air
Hanningfield Metals
Harare Airport Fire Service
Harrison Air
Harry Hodge
Havacilik Muzezi
Hawaiian Airlines
Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd
Heli-Jet Aviation Ltd
Heslin Associates Inc
High Chaparral AB - Wild West Theme Park
Historic Aircraft Museum
Holiday Air of America
Holzen-Ith Restaurant
Home Office Fire & Emergency Training Centre
Hong Kong Airways
Hot Air
Hotel de France
Huns Air Pvt Ltd
Hunting-Clan Air Transport Ltd (HCA)
Icelandair
Ideal Basic Industries Inc
Imperial Air Salvage
Indian Air Force
Indian Airlines Corporation (IAC)
Indonesian Army
Ingersoll Milling Machine Company
Institut de Protection Contre les Incendies du Québec (IPIQ)
Institute Aéronautique Amaury de la Grange (IAAG)
Inter City Airlines
Intercontinental de Aviación
Interestatal de Aviación
Interflight
International Air Charter
International Aircraft Services Inc
International Alloys Ltd
International Fire Training Centre (IFTC)
International Turbine Service Inc (ITS)
Intra Airways
Invicta Airways Ltd
Iran National Airlines Corporation (Iranair)
Iranian Government
Iraqi Airways
Irish Aviation Museum
Irving Trust Company
Island Aviation Inc
Ivory Coast Government
J A Renton & Sons
J Shackleton Ltd
Jack Conroy - Turbo Three Inc
Jadepoint USA
James Carter
James Stanley Leasing Company Inc
Janus Airways
Jeff Brinkenhoff
Jensen Metals
Jerry V Christensen
Jersey Air Ferries
Jersey Airlines
Jersey Airport Fire & Rescue Service
Jersey European Airways (JEA)
Jetair Australia / Jet Airlines Australia
Jim Aspromourgus
John W Mecom Company
John Wesley College
Jordan Airways
Kaysam Investment Corporation
Kearney & Trecker Corporation
Keegan Aviation Ltd
Keegan Leasing
Keith Olson
Kenton Utilities
Kestrel International Airways
Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (KLM)
Kuwait Airways
Kuwait Oil Company
La Granja Park
Lambton Airways
Land Sales Development Corporation
Landhurst Leasing PLC
Lane Xang Airlines
Lao Air Lines
Leicestershire Police Constabulary
Ligacoes Aereas Regionais (LAR)
Lindsay Newspapers Inc
Linea Aeropostal Venezolana (LAV)
Lineas Aereas Canarias (LAC)
Lineas Aereas De Nicaragua S.A. (LANICA)
Lineas Aereas la Urraca (LAU)
Lineas Ecuatoguineanas De Aviacion (LEA)
Linee Aeree Italiane (LAI)
Liverpool Airport Fire Service
Lloyd Aereo Colombiano (LAC)
Loganair
London European Airways
Loving Insurance Agency
Lowey Air Services
LRW Aircraft Sales Inc
Luxair
MacRobertson Miller Airlines (MMA)
Maitland Drewery Aviation Ltd
Malayan Airways
Malmö Aero
Malmö Technical Museum
Mandala Airlines
Manx Airlines (Skianyn Vannin)
Marche Bonsecours
Maritime Central Airways
Maverick Equipment Company
Mayhem Paintball Centre
McKinnon Enterprises Inc
Mercer Trucking Company Inc
Merpati Nusantara Airlines (MNA)
Mid Atlantic Air Museum (MAAM)
Middle East Airlines (MEA)
Middle East Airlines (MEA) / Air Liban
Midland Air Museum (MAM)
Ministry of Aviation
Ministry of Supply
Misrair - Egyptian Airlines
MMM Aero Services (3MAS)
Monarch Aircraft Inc
Montgomery Corporation
Morgan Rourke Aircraft Sales Inc
Mrs H H May
Mrs Marjorie Merriweather Post
Museu Aeroespacial
Museu de Armas
N9 Dancing Kokoriko
National Aero Associates Inc
National Aero Association
National Aircraft Sales Inc
National Aviation Museum of Zimbabwe
National Diving Centre
National Museum of Flight
National Museum of Science and Technology
National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
New Zealand National Airways Corp (NAC)
Newcastle Airport Fire Service
Nicholas A Arndt
Nigeria Airways
Nile Valley Air Services
Nonferral (Queensland) Pty Ltd
Nora Air Services (NAS)
Nor-Air Ltd
North American Rockwell
North Cariboo Flying Service
North East Aircraft Museum (NEAM)
Northeast Airlines (UK)
Northeast Airlines Inc
Northern Aircraft Operating Company Ltd
Not Built
Oasis Oil Company
Occidental Oil of Libya Inc
Omni International Corporation
Omni Investment Corporation
Onyx Aviation Inc
Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association
Overseas Aero Leasing
Overseas Holidays & Aircraft Hire (Pty)
Pakistan Air Force
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
Panavia Air Cargo Ltd
Parque de la Vida
Paul H Holmes
Pearl Air
Pegasus Aviation
Pelandok Airways
Penn Landmark Corporation
Philippine Air Lines (PAL)
Philstone International Ltd
Piarco Airport Fire Service
Pier 1 Aviation
Pima Air and Space Museum (PASM)
Pima Air Museum (PAM)
Pima Community College Aviation School
Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics (PIA)
Planes R Us (Pty) Ltd
Polar Airways
Polskie Linie Lotnicze (LOT)
Possum Park
Potash Company of America
Primeras Lineas Uruguayas de Navegacion Aerea (PLUNA)
Progressive Airways
Purdue University
Queensland Air Museum (QAM)
RAF Museum Cosford
RAF St Athan
Ray Charles Enterprises Inc
Ray Gilson
Ray Wiklund
Redmond Air Inc
Restauraciones Aeronauticas
Richard Jacobs
Rionegro Tutucán Recreational Park
Robert Kivett
Roger Brothers Investments
Ron Clark Enterprises
Ronald J Clark
Rousseau Aviation
Royal Air Lao
Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE)
Royal American Airways (RA)
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada
Royal Bank of Canada
Royal Radar & Signals Establishment (RRE)
Royal Swazi National Airways
S J Groves & Sons Company
S.A. de Transport Aérien (SATA)
SADCO
SAFT Gabon
Saltwell Park
Samuel M Goldman
Sankuru Air Service
Sarcee Club
Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS)
Schenley Distillers Corporation
Scibe Airlift Zaire
Sea Products Company
Sean T Hully (Sales) Ltd
Securicor Air
Servicios Aereos Nacionales (SAN)
Seulawah-Mandala Airlines
Shackleton Aviation Ltd
Silver City Airways
Sims Metals
Sirte Oil Company
Site Aviation
Skyline Sweden
Skysport Engineering
Skytrek Inc
Sociedad Anonima Ecuatoriana de Transportes Aereos (SAETA)
Somali Airlines
Sorya Airlines
South African Air Force (SAAF)
South African Airways (SAA)
Southern Cross Air Transport
Southern Illinois University
Southern International Air Transport
Space Research Corporation
Standard Oil Company
Stansted Fire School
Starways Ltd
Stephen M Birdman
Sudan Airways
Sultan of Oman's Air Force (SOAF)
Sunny South Inc
Super Valu Stores Inc
Swazi Air
TABSO - Bulgarian Civil Air Transport
Technical Aeroparts
Technical School
Technik Museum Speyer
Tees Valley Airport Fire Service
Teesside International Airport Fire Service
Tenneco Inc
Tennessee Gas Transmission Corporation
Texas State Optical Corporation
Tien Yuan Tziuj Airlines
Tony Hammerling
Toowoomba Aviation Museum
Tradair Ltd
Trans Florida Airlines
Trans IntAir
Trans Service Airlift
Transair (Canada) Ltd
Transair (UK) Ltd
Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA)
Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA)
Trans-Peruana S.A. (TP)
Transport Canada
Transportes Aereas del Cesar Ltda (TAC)
Transportes Aereos Centro Americanos (TACA)
Transportes Aereos Portugueses (TAP)
Transtel
Travis Ward
Treffield International Airlines
Trico Corporation
Tucson Airport Authority
Tunisavia
Turbo Aire Holdings Inc
Türk Hava Kuvvetleri (Turkish Air Force)
Türk Hava Yollari - Turkish Airlines (THY)
Twenty Two Sierra November Inc
U C Leasing Inc
Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation
Union Insurance Agency of Illinois
Union of Burma Airways
United Air
United Air Lines
United Aircraft of Canada
United Arab Airlines (UAA)
United Aviation Services Ltd
United Financial Operations
United Iranian Airlines
United States Steel Corporation
Universal Aviation Supply Co. Ltd
Unknown (Foreign)
Unknown (UK)
Uplands Airport Authority
Vanguard Airlines
Vanpac Carriers Inc
Viação Aérea São Paulo SA (VASP)
Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd
Vickers-Armstrongs (Shipbuilders) Ltd
Victor Comptometer Corporation
Virgin Atlantic Airways
Viscount 35 Association
Viscount Air Service Inc
Viscount International Corporation
Viscount Preservation Trust
Viscount Unlimited Inc
Wabush Mines Ltd
Wales Aircraft Museum
Walter L Cole
Walter S Skwarck
Washington Square Methodist Church
West Africa Air Cargo
Western Canada Aviation Museum Inc (WCAM)
Westernair of Albuquerque
William C Wold & Associates
Wings of History Air Museum
Winner Airways
Winnipeg International Airport - Materiel Management Dept
Wobbies World Amusement Park
Wofford Aircraft Sales
World West Aviation Inc
Zaire Aero Service
Zairean Airlines
Zambia Airways
Displayed will be the fleet list for the selected owner or operator together with each aircrafts history sorted by the
date that the aircraft joined the fleet. NOTE: Some aircraft may have entered the fleet several times and possibly with
a different registration.
Featured Aircraft - c/n 346 - G-AZLP
England
G-AZLP - British Midland Airways (BMA) - July 1973 to May 1986
Returned from Air Anglia lease. Taken at Dyce Airport, Aberdeen, Scotland in June 1977.
Photo source - Brian R Burrage collection (gallery 2)
Aircraft Summary
South African Airways (SAA)
This aircraft c/n 346, a V.813, was built for South African Airways (SAA) as ZS-CDT and first flew on Wednesday, 17 September 1958 at Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.
During its life it was also owned and/or operated by British Midland Airways (BMA), Air Anglia, British Aerospace (BAe), Dowty Aerospace, Technical Aeroparts, Civil Aviation Authority Fire Training School, North East Aircraft Museum (NEAM) and Imperial Air Salvage
Its final owner/operator was Brooklands Museum as G-AZLP.Its fate:- Withdrawn from service by British Midland Airways (BMA) and stored at East Midlands Airport, Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England on the 2 April 1982. Ferried using a one-off permit to fly, from East Midlands Airport to Teesside International Airport, Darlington, County Durham, England on the 7 November 1983 and stored in a hangar. Sold to British Aerospace (BAe) in part-exchange for the new British Midland Airways (BMA) ATP turboprop fleet 7 May 1986. Parts recovery by Dowty Aerospace and Technical Aeroparts during 1986. Donated to the CAA Fire Training School at the same airport for training and test purposes circa June 1986. Noted as a fuselage only, lying on its belly March 2000. Transferred to joint ownership between the North East Aircraft Museum (NEAM) and the RAF Millom Aviation and Military Museum on the 25 June 2008. Plans to restore it were eventually abandoned and it was sold to Imperial Air Salvage for scrap metal recovery circa October 2013. The forward fuselage section was donated by Captain Mustafa Azim (retd) to Brooklands Museum in November 2013. Now on display in an 'under construction' condition inside the relocated and refurbished 'Bellman' hangar. This 'Aircraft Facorty' feature opened to the public 14 November 2017.
History and photos of Viscount c/n 346 G-AZLP
British Midland Airways (BMA) Viscount fleet list and photos
United Kingdom issued Viscount registrations
Photos contributed by Brian R Burrage collection (gallery 2)