Travel back in time with the Viscount
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Wales
G-AOYI * - Cambrian Airways - July 1970 to July 1973
Purchased from British European Airways (BEA). Taken at Middelkerke Airport, Ostend, Belgium in July 1972 now repainted in the 'orange' livery.
Note the small 'British Air Services' logo on the forward fuselage.
Photo source - Peter Gates 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Withdrawn from service with British Air Ferries (BAF) and returned to Caicos International Airways Ltd and stored at the BAF facility at Southend Airport, Rochford,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 Registration cancelled as aircraft permanently withdrawn from use 1 June 1992.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.