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    The Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee...
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  • Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth...
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    War Museum Duxford, England. Vickers Viking G-AGRU is on display at the Brooklands Museum, Surrey, England. Vickers Viscount 701 G-ALWF is on display at...
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    The Vickers Viscount was a medium-range airliner driven by four turboprop engines. The type was designed and manufactured in Britain from 1948 to 1963...
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  • Vickers and are in preservation. "60th Anniversary of Valiant's First Flight." Royal Air Force Museum, 17 May 2011. "Thunder & Lightnings - Vickers Valiant...
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    The Vickers Vanguard was a short/medium-range turboprop airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vanguard...
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  • on board. July 13 – In the 1928 Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan crash, an Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan on a test flight from Croydon Airport, England...
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  • Italian company Vickers Viscount, a turboprop airliner Viscount (biscuit) Rural Municipality of Viscount No. 341, Saskatchewan, Canada Viscount, Saskatchewan...
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    fleet of Vickers Viscount turboprop airliners was built up from late 1954 and these were used on many intra-North American routes. The Viscount was followed...
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    Brabazon Committee the Vickers Viscount was created: this was a medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs, making it the...
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    6 mi) 1977-05-27 69 7 62 0 † COM Merpati Nusantara Airlines Viscount (PK-MVS) Vickers Viscount 828 indonpMentawai Strait, off Padang, Indonesia ENR 1971-11-10...
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    manufactured by Rolls-Royce Limited. First run in 1946, it powered the Vickers Viscount on its maiden flight in 1948. A flight on July 29 of that year, which...
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    on 1 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-12. "A Virtual Museum dedicated to the Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount". Vickers Viscount Museum. Retrieved 2023-06-12....
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  • São Paulo, killing all 20 passengers and crew. 22 December 1959: a Vickers Viscount 800 registration PP-SRG while on approach to land at Rio de Janeiro-Galeão...
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  • to withdraw from its loss-making regional routes and to retire its Vickers Viscount turboprop fleet, BAF acquired the entire 18-strong fleet along with...
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  • The Vickers VC.1 Viking is a British twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Vickers Wellington bomber and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited...
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  • lost three Comet 4C's, two Caravelles, a Boeing 707, the Vickers VC10, and the Vickers Viscount - MEA restarted by acquiring a Convair 990A from American...
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  • The following is a list of past and present operators of the Vickers Viscount. ♠ Original operators 318975 Ontario Ltd. 515489 Ontario Ltd ASS - Australian...
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  • of the British manufactured, four engine Vickers Viscount, the first passenger turboprop airliner. The Viscount propjets were deployed on the flagship Washington-Chicago...
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    DC-3 Dakotas, 12 Vickers Vikings, 3 Douglas DC-4s and various smaller types from the seven airlines that made it up. Vickers Viscounts were introduced...
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  • – Cambrian Airways Vickers Viscount G-AMOL crashed on approach to Speke Airport, Liverpool, Lancashire. 27 October – BEA Vickers Vanguard G-APEE crashed...
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    Dove de Havilland Heron Douglas DC-3 Vickers Viscount 701 Vickers Viscount 806X On 20 July 1965, Vickers Viscount G-AMOL crashed on landing at Speke Airport...
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  • scheduled service, flying a leased Vickers Viscount from Vienna to Zürich and London; it subsequently purchased its own Viscount fleet. On 18 February 1963,...
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  • route structure, the airline became one of the early purchasers of Vickers Viscount 700s in 1951, which were placed in service in April 1954. In 1952,...
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  • began turboprop flights with the Vickers Viscount on the new medium-haul routes. The British-manufactured Viscount four engine turboprop, which Continental...
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    Halifax Miles Gemini Miles Hawk Trainer Percival Proctor Vickers Valetta Vickers Viking Vickers Viscount In August 1950, Eagle Aviation's fleet comprised five...
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    However, the type was quickly outperformed by the turboprop-powered Vickers Viscount, with BEA opting to withdraw its Ambassadors in 1958. Secondhand aircraft...
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  • bringing the fleet to five. This opened up Viscount services to Hamilton and Invercargill. The Vickers Viscount continued on until the last was withdrawn...
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    (RAE) at Farnborough Airfield, Hampshire, in a specially modified Vickers Viscount. RB.44 Tay Rolls-Royce development engines only, no production. Hispano-Suiza...
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  • Source: Air Transport World ANA grew through the 1960s, adding the Vickers Viscount to the fleet in 1960 and the Fokker F27 in 1961. October 1961 marked...
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