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23 October 2019

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Our website contains over 20,000 pages of photos and information that can all be accessed from the menu at the top of every page. Here are a few to get you started.

In the Beginning

The Turboprop World-Beater

Sir George Edwards

The Rolls-Royce Dart

c/n 1 G-AHRF V.630
The Prototype Viscount

c/n 2 VX217 V.663
The Tay powered Viscount

c/n 3 G-AMAV V.700
The V.700 series prototype

c/n 4 G-ALWE V.701
The first BEA Viscount

c/n 5 G-ALWF V.701
The oldest surviving Viscount

c/n 8 F-BGNK V.708
The first Air France Viscount

c/n 30 EI-AFV V.707
The first Aer Lingus Viscount

c/n 40 CF-TGI V.724
The first TCA Viscount

c/n 44 VH-TVA V.720
The first TAA Viscount

c/n 67 YI-ACK V.735
The first Iraqi Airways Viscount

c/n 70 CF-GXK V.737
The first Canadian DoT Viscount

c/n 71 VP-TBK V.702
The first BOAC Associated
Companies Viscount

c/n 74 G-ANRR V.732
The first Hunting-Clan Viscount

c/n 77 LN-FOF V.736
The first Fred Olsen Viscount

c/n 79 IU-683 V.723
The first Indian Air Force Viscount

c/n 88 N7402 V.744
The first Capital Airlines Viscount

c/n 97 VH-BAT V.747
The first Butler Air
Transport Viscount

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Owner or operator Viscount fleet lists

BEA - British European Airways Viscount c/n 152 G-AOJC

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.

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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 377 - HC-ARS

Photo of Sociedad Anonima Ecuatoriana de Transportes Aereos (SAETA) Viscount HC-ARS c/n 377

Ecuador

HC-ARS - Sociedad Anonima Ecuatoriana de Transportes Aereos (SAETA) - December 1969 to August 1976

Purchased from Alitalia. Taken at East Midlands Airport, Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England in January 1972 whilst undergoing maintenance with Field Aircraft Services. Three of the Rolls-Royce Dart engines have been removed and sent away for repair or overhaul, probably to their sister facility at Croydon, Surrey, although the operator may choose another facility such as Hants & Sussex Aviation or Rolls-Royce themselves.

Photo source - Carl Ford

Aircraft Summary

Alitalia

This aircraft c/n 377, a V.785D, was built for Alitalia as I-LIRS and first flew on Tuesday, 11 March 1958 at Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.

Its final owner/operator was Sociedad Anonima Ecuatoriana de Transportes Aereos (SAETA) as HC-ARS.

Its fate:-

Crashed 660 feet below the peak of the 20,700 ft Chimborazo Volcano while operating a scheduled domestic service from Aeropuerto Mariscal Sucre, Quito to Cuenca Airport, Ecuador 15 August 1976. Despite an intensive search the wreckage could not be found. The wreckage was eventually found 18 February 2003, nearly 27 years later!

History and photos of Viscount c/n 377 HC-ARS
Sociedad Anonima Ecuatoriana de Transportes Aereos (SAETA) Viscount fleet list and photos
Ecuador issued Viscount registrations
Photos contributed by Carl Ford

Photo of BEA - British European Airways Viscount G-AOJC

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