OK fellow enthusiasts I am a new member to this forum, and was wondering if anyone has any information on the last few Viscounts that operated for BAF at southend, I understand 3 of them went to South Africa but I can not trace them in my airlines book, I have done a search on most airlines in Africa and drawn a blank. I just wanted to know what happened to Viscount 806 G-APEY and any others.
any info would be much appreciated.
By: GLAmrocker - 21st November 2006 at 12:19
Never got to fly on one and am really gutted about that.
I managed five flights 🙂 3 between GLA and EDI ( G-AOHG , G-AOYG and G-APKF) and one return between GLA-LPL both on G-ATDU ! 😉
By: jaybeebee - 19th November 2006 at 10:25
There is one here at a local Aviation Museum that used to belong to Fidel Castro
http://www.aarg.com.au/viscount.htm
Never realized there were so many preseved worldwide! 😮
By: jaybeebee - 19th November 2006 at 10:23
Ah a seat from the Freightmaster.
Just think JBB that may have been the very seat where they forgot to wizz the wheels down at Belfast, and wrote it off!
Well, I have found the seat to be soooooo comfortable! Maybe thats why they forgot 😀
By: steve rowell - 18th November 2006 at 23:03
There is one here at a local Aviation Museum that used to belong to Fidel Castro
http://www.aarg.com.au/viscount.htm
By: Jamie-Southend - 18th November 2006 at 20:49
Ah a seat from the Freightmaster.
Just think JBB that may have been the very seat where they forgot to wizz the wheels down at Belfast, and wrote it off!
By: jaybeebee - 18th November 2006 at 17:27
Never got to fly on one and am really gutted about that. Still, I now have my pilots seat form G-BBDK, my Viscount Farewell dvd (has the beatiful sound of the darts!) and a damn good imagination!! :p
By: Jamie-Southend - 20th October 2006 at 13:38
Have not herd of one coming back to the UK – Great Idea though.
Here is the tenner reefy one though.
By: Newforest - 19th October 2006 at 20:19
Hi all.
Does anyone know what state the Viscounts are in at Tenerife
I saw the Viscounts at Los Rodeos in the early 90’s apparently just sitting there. Googling for them last year, I could only see one which had moved to east of the terminal.
By: EGNM - 5th March 2002 at 19:39
RE: vickers viscounts
No Problemo – i have a picture of G-APEY if u want me to get it scanned and e-mailed to you – it’s in the hhelijet c/s?
By: mikair - 4th March 2002 at 19:39
RE: vickers viscounts
thanks for that info preston, appreciated.
By: EGNM - 3rd March 2002 at 19:16
RE: vickers viscounts
Hi there,
I did a work exp at a local Heliport, and the operting company was known as Helijet Aviation. They concentrate on helicopter leasing but they bought APEY from BAF and operted it for a couple of years – i believe it was based at EMA but was regularly seen at LBA as the company operated from a heliport about 400m away
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