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26 September 2022

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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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Featured pages

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 248 - G-CSZB

Photo of British World Airlines (BWA) Viscount G-CSZB c/n 248

England

G-CSZB - British World Airlines (BWA) - April 1993 to October 1998

Transferred from British Air Ferries (BAF) due to a corporate name change. A view from the jumpseat on the final approach to Dyce Airport, Aberdeen, Scotland 18 March 1996.

Note the snow that has built up on the central windscreen. Luckily the pilots have their own heated windscreens to look out of, which also have wiper blades.

The runway visual range (RVR) is obviously above the legal horizontal minimum.

Photo source - Clive Worboys

Aircraft Summary

Transair (UK) Ltd

This aircraft c/n 248, a V.804, was built for Transair (UK) Ltd as G-AOXU and first flew on Saturday, 31 August 1957 at Weybridge, Surrey, England.

During its life it was also owned and/or operated by British United Airways (BUA), Polskie Linie Lotnicze (LOT), New Zealand National Airways Corporation (NAC), Pearl Air, Southern International Air Transport Ltd, Dan-Air London, Philstone International Ltd, Royal American Airways (RA), British Air Ferries (BAF), Euroair Transport Ltd, British World Airlines (BWA), J A Renton & Sons and Colin Jacobs

Its final owner/operator was East Midlands Aeropark as G-CSZB.

Its fate:-

Withdrawn from service by British World Airlines (BWA) and stored at Southend Airport, Rochford, Essex, England 15 October 1996.

Broken up for scrap in October 1998 except for the nose section. Some parts were sent to the Moorabbin Air Museum in Australia to help restore Viscount VH-TVR (C/N 318).

The forward fuselage section was noted stored in the haulage yard of J A Renton & Sons at Coalville, near Loughborough, Leicestershire, England 9 May 2002. Offered for sale for £500.00 in 2003.

Purchased by Colin Jacobs and loaned to the East Midlands Aeropark collection at East Midlands Airport circa August 2003. This is no public access to the interior. Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions the museum closed to the general public in March 2020 for a limited period. Noted with a fresh coat of paint and still carrying the name 'Viscount Scotland' 15 April 2022. The museum is now operating normally.

History and photos of Viscount c/n 248 G-CSZB
British World Airlines (BWA) Viscount fleet list and photos
United Kingdom issued Viscount registrations
Photos contributed by Clive Worboys

Photo of BEA - British European Airways Viscount G-AOJC

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