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| Role | Airliner |
| National origin | UK. |
| Manufacturer | Vickers |
| First flight | 1948 |
| Introduction | 1950 |
| Status | Out of service |
| Produced | 1948-1963 |
| Number built | 445 examples |
The Vickers Viscount is a British airliner. It is a four-turboprop civilian aircraft. It can carry between 65 and 75 passengers. The Vanguard is an enlarged cargo aircraft variant. It was used by Air France, BOAC, United Airlines and many other airlines in the world.
Type 663 Tay Viscount demonstrating at Farnborough in September 1950
Viscount 700 prototype G-AMAV as competitor No. 23 in the NZ Air Race at London Airport, 8 October 1953
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Trans-Canada Airlines Viscount making a low pass sometime in the 1960s
National Airways Viscount at Wellington Airport, 1971
Viscount 701 of Cambrian Airways at Bristol Airport, 1963
British European Airways Vickers Viscount 802 at London Heathrow Airport in 1964. Behind it is a BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident and on the right a BEA Vickers Vanguard
Tail fin of a Viscount 757 at the Western Canada Aviation Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Brazilian Air Force Viscount used by Brazilian authorities on display at Brazilian Air Force Museum, in Rio de Janeiro
Interior of Viscount 757 in Winnipeg museum
Vickers Viscount Type 724 (Registration N22SN c/n 40) in Viscount Air Services Inc. colours at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
The cockpit of a derelict Viscount nose section
