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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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Established 2005
Vickers Viscount Network
A Virtual Museum dedicated to the Vickers-Armstrongs VC2 Viscount

Viscount photos by contributor

BEA - British European Airways Viscount c/n 150 G-AOJA from the Ed Jones collection
BEA - British European Airways Viscount c/n 150 G-AOJA from
the Ed Jones collection

To all of our contributors we say a big thank you

The Vickers Viscount Network would not have been possible without the generous support of the people listed here who contributed their photos to the museum. To them and future contributors we say a big thank you.

Our ultimate aim is to have an image of every single aircraft in every livery that it operated, together with images showing significant moments in each aircrafts life.

Any photograph, even a poor quality one, that shows an unique part of an aircrafts history is better than not having one at all. Our graphic systems can restore all but the worst image. This target will probably never be totally fulfilled, but with your help it could come close.


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Displayed will be all the Viscount photos that we have on file from the selected contributor.


Ger Buskermolen

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Photo of Polar Airways Viscount G-AOHV c/n 170
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G-AOHV - Polar Airways - March 1983 to July 1983

Purchased from British Air Ferries (BAF), still named 'Winn'. Taken at Middelkerke Airport, Ostend, Belgium in April 1983 in a modified BAF livery.

Photo source - Ger Buskermolen


Aircraft Summary

Photo of British European Airways Corporation (BEA) Viscount G-AOHV
British European Airways Corporation (BEA)

This aircraft c/n 170, a V.802, was built for British European Airways Corporation (BEA) as G-AOHV and first flew on Wednesday, 10 July 1957 at Weybridge, Surrey, England.

During its life it was also owned and/or operated by British Airways (BA), British Air Ferries (BAF), Oasis Oil Company, Esso Standard Libya Inc, Polar Airways, Euroair Transport Ltd, Tunisavia, British World Airlines (BWA), Airwing 2000 Ltd, Interflight, Transtel, Ivory Coast Government, Pegasus Aviation and Global Airways

Its final owner/operator was GTRA Airways as 9Q-COD.

Its fate:-

Withdrawn from service by Global Airways and stored at Luano Airport, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo in January 2009.

This is the last known flight of a Vickers Viscount anywhere in the world.

Sold to GTRA Airways but remained stored at Luano Airport, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Offered for sale in September 2012 for US $250,000 reportedly in a 'flyable' condition. Still visible on Google Earth 18 August 2014. No longer visible on Google Earth 20 July 2015, so presumed to be scrapped sometime between the last two dates.


History and photos of Viscount c/n 170 G-AOHV
Polar Airways Viscount fleet list and photos
United Kingdom issued Viscount registrations
Photos contributed by Ger Buskermolen


Photo of BEA - British European Airways Viscount G-AOJC

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