Travel back in time with the Viscount
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England
G-AVJB - Kestrel International Airways - March 1972 to November 1972
Purchased from British Midland Airways (BMA). Taken at Heathrow Airport, London, England in May 1972.
Photo source - Bill Sheridan
Aircraft Summary
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
This aircraft c/n 375, a V.815, was built for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) as AP-AJF and first flew on Friday, 14 August 1959 at Weybridge, Surrey, England.
During its life it was also owned and/or operated by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd, Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd, British Midland Airways (BMA), Nigeria Airways, Kestrel International Airways, Site Aviation, British Airways (BA), Intra Airways, Jersey European Airways (JEA), Field Aviation Ltd, British Air Ferries (BAF), Svenska AB and Baltic Aviation AB
Its final owner/operator was High Chaparral AB - Wild West Theme Park as SE-IVY.Its fate:-
Final Baltic Airlines service from Sturup Airport, Malmö, Sweden to Southend Airport, Rochford, Essex, England 28 April 1989 and stored. Ferried back to Sturup Airport, Malmö, Sweden during 1989 and at some point the engines were removed as they had been repossessed by their owner Sean T Hulley.
It was dismantled circa 1992 and moved by road to High Chaparral which is a Wild West Theme Park near Kulltorp, Sweden, marked up as 'Big Airland' and mounted in front of the Kopcentrum shopping centre. The aircraft had been mounted on a frame above a London RM Routemaster bus. A fire in a nearby supermarket 9 June 2001 consumed the bus and damaged the Viscount.
Noted advertised for sale by auction by Klaravik AB 7 March 2019. The auction closed 13 March 2019 and the aircraft was sold to an Estonian scrap dealer for 47,000 SK plus fees. Noted cut up into two fuselage sections and transported by two Estonian registered trucks towards Kapellskär, Sweden and a vehicle ferry to Finland and then a further road journey to Estonia in April 2019 for final processing.