Travel back in time with the Viscount
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England
G-APTB - Hunting-Clan Air Transport Ltd (HCA) - June 1959 to July 1960
Delivered new to Hunting-Clan Air Transport Ltd (HCA). Taken at Mulhouse Airport, Basel, Alsace Region, France in June 1960 operating a charter flight.
In the background there is a Hunting-Clan Vickers Viking which may have brought additional passengers on the same charter, so this may well be for an international football match.
Photo source - Peter Frei
Aircraft Summary
Hunting-Clan Air Transport Ltd (HCA)
This aircraft c/n 424, a V.833, was built for Hunting-Clan Air Transport Ltd (HCA) as G-APTB and first flew on Wednesday, 13 May 1959 at Weybridge, Surrey, England.
During its life it was also owned and/or operated by British United Airways (BUA), Arkia - Israel Inland Airlines, British Air Ferries (BAF) and Chelmer Transport Hauliers
Its final owner/operator was Hanningfield Metals as 4X-AVB.Its fate:-
Withdrawn from service by Arkia - Israel Inland Airlines Ltd at Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel 4 March 1983. Sold to British Air Ferries (BAF) 4 March 1989 for spares and broken down into sections for air shipment back to the UK. Sections of 4X-AVB and Viscount 4X-AVF (C/N 402) arrived at Stansted Airport, Essex, England in late March 1989 inside Heavylift Canadair CL-44-0 EI-BND, and were transferred by road to the BAF facility at Southend Airport, Rochford, Essex, England. Redundant sections of the aircraft were taken away by Hanningfield Metals to their yard at Templewood Industrial Estate, Stock Road, West Hanningfield, Essex, England for scrapping circa April 1989. The forward fuselage section was saved and was transferred to the yard of Chelmer Transport Hauliers at Coggleshall, Essex, England circ April 1989 but it was noted in the Hanningfield Metals yard in February 1994. The final fate of this forward fuselage section is not known. Details please to information@vickersviscount.net.