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04 October 2025

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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.

Viscount history

Letter from HRH Prince Philip

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Discover the history of the Viscount with film, video, contemporary reports from the pages of Flight Magazine, our newsletters, and aircraft operational records and photos from our database.

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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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Viscount photos by owner or operator

TCA - Trans-Canada Air Lines

Photos for most 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

Displayed will be all the photos that we have on file illustrating the operational history of the Viscount with each owner or operator.

British Air Ferries (BAF)

Featured owner or operator

England

G-AOYI * - British Air Ferries (BAF) - February 1984 to February 1985

Returned from Guernsey Airlines lease and now named 'Viscount Jersey'. Taken at Fuhlsbuttel Airport, Hamburg, West Germany 3 October 1984.

Photo source - Bruno Geiger collection

Aircraft Summary

British European Airways Corporation (BEA)

This aircraft c/n 257, a V.806, was built for British European Airways Corporation (BEA) as G-AOYI and first flew on Thursday, 14 November 1957 at Weybridge, Surrey, England.

During its life it was also owned and/or operated by Cambrian Airways, British Airways (BA), British Air Ferries (BAF), Esso Standard Libya Inc, Occidental of Libya Inc, Sirte Oil Company, Polar Airways, Guernsey Airlines, London European Airways and Caicos International Airways Ltd

Its final owner/operator was Hanningfield Metals as G-LOND.

Its fate:-

Withdrawn from service with British Air Ferries (BAF) and returned to Caicos International Airways Ltd and stored at the BAF facility at Southend Airport, Rochford, Essex, England in June 1988.

Certificate of Airworthiness (C of A) expired 20 June 1988. Advertised for sale in Flight International magazine 6 February 1991. Registration cancelled as aircraft permanently withdrawn from use 1 June 1992.

Sold to Hanningfield Metals for scrap in February 1993 with broken down sections transferred to their yard at Templewood Industrial Estate, Stock Road, West Hanningfield, Essex, England. Some fuselage sections still noted in existence in November 1994.

History and photos of Viscount c/n 257 G-AOYI *
British Air Ferries (BAF) Viscount fleet list and photos
United Kingdom issued Viscount registrations
Photos contributed by Bruno Geiger collection

Photo of BEA - British European Airways Viscount G-AOJC

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