Vickers Viscount facts for kids

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Vickers Viscount
Vickers Viscount landing.
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.

Images for kids

  • Vickers 663 Tay Viscount

    Type 663 Tay Viscount demonstrating at Farnborough in September 1950

  • Viscount 700 G-AMAV NZ Air Race

    Viscount 700 prototype G-AMAV as competitor No. 23 in the NZ Air Race at London Airport, 8 October 1953

  • Trans-Canada Airlines Vickers Viscount (1)

    Trans-Canada Airlines Viscount making a low pass sometime in the 1960s

  • Vickers Viscount 807 ZK-BRD Wellington 210471

    National Airways Viscount at Wellington Airport, 1971

  • Cambrian viscount g-amon in 1963 arp

    Viscount 701 of Cambrian Airways at Bristol Airport, 1963

  • Bea vickers viscount g-aohj arp

    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

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    Tail fin of a Viscount 757 at the Western Canada Aviation Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

  • Viscount Presidencial

    Brazilian Air Force Viscount used by Brazilian authorities on display at Brazilian Air Force Museum, in Rio de Janeiro

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    Interior of Viscount 757 in Winnipeg museum

  • Vickers Viscount at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Vickers Viscount Type 724 (Registration N22SN c/n 40) in Viscount Air Services Inc. colours at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

  • 2006-06-03 Vickers Viscount unrestored cockpit

    The cockpit of a derelict Viscount nose section


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