A thread that I hope will act as a reference source for anyone who cares to use it.
The previous thread compiled a list of British post-war commercial aircraft excluding single-engined and rotary-wing types.
So, first will be that list. Then the “survivors” list that I’ve made a start on and this excludes nose/cockpit sections.
BRITISH POST-WAR COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT (multi-engined, fixed wing types)
Airspeed Consul
Airspeed Ambassador
Armstrong Whitworth Apollo
Armstrong Whitworth Argosy
ATL Accountant
ATL Carvair
Avro York?
Avro Lancastrian
Avro Lincolnian
Avro 19
Avro Tudor
Avro Ashton
Avro 748
BAe ATP
BAC 1-11
BAC/Sud Concorde
Beagle 206
Blackburn Universal
Bristol Brabazon
Bristol Freighter
Bristol Britannia
Britten Norman Islander (early only)
Britten Norman Trislander
Cunliffe Owen Concordia
DH Comet
DH Dove
DH Heron
DH Trident
DH 125 (early only)
DH/BAe 146 (early only)
Fairey Rotodyne
HP Halton
HP Hermes
HP Herald
HP/Scottish Aviation Jetstream
Miles Aerovan
Miles/HP Marathon
Miles Merchantman
Percival Merganser
Percival Prince/President
SARO Princess
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
Short Sandringham
Short Solent
Short Sealand
Short Belfast (ex military)
Short Skyvan
Short 330/360
Vickers Viking
Vickers Viscount
Vickers Vanguard
Vickers VC.10
BRITISH POST WAR COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT – SURVIVORS
multi-engined, fixed wing types only and no nose/cockpit sections
Airspeed Consul
Airspeed Ambassador
G-ALZO ex 108 Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
Armstrong Whitworth Argosy
6651 N896U ex G-AOZZ Yankke Air Museum, Ypsilanti, Michigan,
USA
6652 G-APRL ex N890U, N602Z, N6507R Midland Air Museum,
Baginton, Warwickshire.
6660 G-BEOZ East Midlands Aeropark, Castle Donnington,
Derbyshire
6766 XP411 RAF Museum, Cosford, Shropshire
6779 N1430Z ex XP447 Milestones of Flight Museum, Fox Field,
California, USA
6798 G-BFVT ex XR143 Mid America Air Museum, Sioux City,
Iowa, USA
6802 ZK-SAE ex CF-TAJ, G-ASXN The Argosy Trust, Marlborough,
NZ
XN817 DS&TL, West Freugh, Scotland (fuselage on dump)
ATL Carvair
9/27249 N89FA ex G-ASHZ Gator Global Flying Services ???
21/27314 QJ-PAA ex N5459M, ZK-NWB, N54598, VH-INK Pheobus
Apollo Aviation ??
Avro York
G-ANTK ex MW232 Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford,
Cambridgeshire.
Avro 19
VM360 ex G-APHV Museum of Flight, East Fortune, East Lothian.
Avro Ashton
WB491 Newark Air Museum, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
(incomplete fuselage only)
Avro 748
BAe ATP
BAC 1-11
G-ASYD Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey.
G-AVMO Museum of Flight, East Fortune, East Lothian.
G-AVMU Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
CC-CYL Museum of Aeronautics, Chile.
CC-CYM Museum of Aeronautics, Chile.
LV-MZM Institute of Civil Aviation, Moron.
BAC/Sud Concorde (British-built)
002 G-BSST Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset.
101 G-AXDN Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
202 G-BBDG Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey.
204 G-BOAC Manchester Airport, Greater Manchester.
206 G-BOAA Museum of Flight, East Fortune, East Lothian.
208 G-BOAB British Airways, London Airport, Heathrow,
Greater London.
210 G-BOAD Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York City, USA.
212 G-BOAE Grantly-Adams Airport, Barbados.
214 G-BOAG Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA, USA
216 G-BOAF Bristol Aero Collection, Filton, Gloucestershire.
(plus 8 French-built examples)
Beagle 206
Bristol Freighter
Bristol Britannia
G-ANCF Britannia Aircraft Preservation Trust, Speke, Liverpool
G-AOVT Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
G-AOVF “XM497” RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire.
XM496 Bristol Britannia XM496 Preservation Society, Kemble,
Gloucestershire.
Britten Norman Islander (early only)
G-BELF ex D-IBRA Museum of Flight, East Fortune, East Lothian.
Britten Norman Trislander
DH Comet
F-BGNX ex G-AOJT De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, London
Colney, Hertfordshire.
XM823, F-BGNY RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire.
XK699/7971M, G-AMXM Gate RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire
G-APDB ex 9M-AOB Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford,
Cambridgeshire.
G-APYD ex SX-DAL Science Museum, Wroughton, Wiltshire.
G-BDIX ex XR399 Museum of Flight, East Fortune, East Lothian.
XS235/G-CPDA Cold War Jets Collection, Bruntingthorpe,
Leicestershire.
XR398/G-BDIW Hermeskiel, Junior collection, Germany
N888WA Museum of Flight, Paine Field, Seattle, USA
N777WA Zoological park, Mexico.
DH Dove
G-AHRI ex 4X-ARI Newark Air Museum, Nottinghamshire
G-ALCU “G-ALVD” ex VT-CEH Midland Air Museum, Baginton,
Warwickshire.
G-ALFU Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
G-ANOV Museum of Flight, East Fortune, East Lothian, Scotland.
G-ARHW Air Atlantique Classic Flight, Baginton, Warwickshire.
XM223 ex G-BWWC Air Atlantique Classic Flight, Baginton,
Warwickshire.
G-BWFB ex VP959, N959VP Air Atlantique Classic Flight, Baginton,
Warwickshire. (Devon)
G-DHDV ex VP981 Air Atlantique Classic Flight, Baginton,
Warwickshire. (Devon)
D-IFSB ex D-CFSB, G-AMXR, N4280V De Havilland Aircraft Heritage
Centre, London Colney, Hertfordshire.
04306 N551JC Slaton, Texas (abandoned?)
DH Heron
G-ANUO “G-AOXL” Croydon, Greater London.
G-ANXB ex G-5-14 Newark Air Museum, Nottinghamshire.
G-AOTI De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, London Colney,
Hertfordshire.
DH Trident
G-AVFB ex 5B-DAC Duxford Aviation Society, Cambridgeshire.
G-AWZM Science Museum, Wroughton, Wiltshire.
DH 125 (early only)
G-ARYB Midland Air Museum, Baginton, Warwickshire.
G-ARYC De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, London Colney, Hertfordshire.
G-OHEA “G-DHEA” ex G-AVRG Cranfield Aerodrome, Bedfordshire.
(dump)
G-ATPD ex 5N-AGU Bournemouth Airport, Dorset. (dump)
G-YUGO ex G-ATWH, HZ-BOI Biggin Hill Airport, Greater London.
(dump)
G-BLUW “ZF130” ex HZ-SJP, HZ-DAC, G-5-19 Electroworks
Nightclub, Islington, London.
5N-AAN ex F-GFMP, G-AVAI, LN-NPA Newcastle Aviation
Academy, Northumberland & Tyneside
DH/BAe 146 (early only)
HP Hermes
G-ALDG Duxford Aviation Society, Cambridgeshire. (fuselage)
HP Herald
149 G-APWA ex PP-SDM, PP-ASV Museum of Berkshire Aviation,
Woodley, Berkshire.
161 G-ASKK City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich, Norfolk.
168 G-APWJ Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
176 G-AVPN ex I-TIVB, D-BIBI Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington,
N.Yorkshire.
195 G-CEXP ex I-ZERC, G-BFRJ, 4X-AHO Gatwick Airport,
W.Sussex.
HP/Scottish Aviation Jetstream
G-JSSD ex N510F, N510E, N12227, G-AXJZ Museum of Flight, East
Fortune, East Lothian, Scotland
Percival Prince/President
G-AMLZ The Jetstream Club, Liverpool, Merseyside.
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
G-APRS ex G-BCWF, XT610 Air Atlantique Classic Flight, Baginton,
Warwickshire.
G-AZHJ ex XP295 Air Atlantique Classic Flight, Baginton,
Warwickshire.
G-BBVF ex XM961/7978M Museum of Flight, East Fortune, East
Lothian, Scotland.
XL993/8388m RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire.
Short Sandringham
VH-BRC ex VP-LVE, N158C, ZK-AMH, JM715 Solent Sky,
Southampton, Hampshire.
Short Solent
Short Sealand
G-AKLW ex SU-AHY Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Belfast,
Northern Ireland
0662 c/n SH.1567 ex YU-CFK, G-AKLS Yugoslav Aeronautical
Museum, Belgrade, Serbia.
??? Goa, India
Short Belfast (ex military)
XR371 RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire.
Short Skyvan
Short 330/360
Vickers Viking
G-AGRU ex VP-TAX Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey.
Vickers Viscount
G-ALWF Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
G-AMOG Museum of Flight, East Fortune, East Lothian, Scotland.
G-APIM Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey.
F-BGNR Midland Air Museum, Baginton, Warwickshire.
Vickers Vanguard
G-APEP Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey. (Merchantman)
Vickers VC.10
G-ASGC Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
A40-AB ex G-ASIX Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey.
Still lots to do and comments, corrections, contributions more than welcome.
Roger Smith.
By: ericmunk - 2nd March 2019 at 20:01
Isn’t there a Viscount and at least 2 Tridents in the museum at Datangshan?
There are. There’s also a number of Tridents elsewhere in China, including one in downtown Beijing.
By: RMR - 2nd March 2019 at 18:49
Isn’t there a Viscount and at least 2 Tridents in the museum at Datangshan?
By: darren - 1st March 2019 at 00:24
This website should help you out a bit:
By: Stan Smith - 28th February 2019 at 22:31
Heron 1A ZK-BBM at classic flyers in Tauranga
By: Sabrejet - 28th February 2019 at 08:39
How do Darts fare after prolonged storage?
I doubt if the engines were properly inhibited, but it might still run.
Darts are tough as old boots: centrifugal compressor and pretty basic. They’d run on creosote I’d imagine.
By: Archer - 28th February 2019 at 08:12
Interesting to see this thread again, I had forgotten about it. In the meantime we’ve gone from 15 active VC10s and 4 preserved to 9 preserved examples (one is only a fuselage), with several incomplete fuselage sections and nose sections as well.
By: MAC314 - 28th February 2019 at 07:13
Vickers Viscount V.807 ZK-BRF, Ferrymead, Christchurch,NZ
Bristol B.170 Freighter Mk 31M ZK-CLU, outdoor display at Nelson Founders Museum, Nelson, NZ
Bristol B.170 Freighter Mk 31E ZK-CPT, in SAFE Air colours, at the Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim, nZ
Armstrong Whitworth Argosy ZK-SAE static display near Woodbourne Airport, Blenheim, NZ
There are a few DH Devons in NZ that should actually met the criteria (built as doves, flown on ZK reg before being handed over to the RNZAF if I recall correctly) but I will that to someone who knows which ones.
By: J Boyle - 27th February 2019 at 22:40
Thanks to google for bringing up this thread. Does anyone know if there are any Vickers Viscounts that could still be ground run at all anywhere in the world?
The Pima Air Museum has one (ex-Tucson based charter firm that rented them to touring music groups), aside from being sun baked, I would imagine it’s in good condition.
It’s an early (40th built…A contender for the oldest survivor?) ex-TCA craft…and apparently flew the first commercial turbine flight in North America.
http://www.pimaair.org/aircraft-by-name/item/vickers-744-viscount
How do Darts fare after prolonged storage?
I doubt if the engines were properly inhibited, but it might still run.
By: Stan Smith - 27th February 2019 at 22:03
May be out of line with my thoughts but try these few:-
DH84 Dragons,
ZK-AXI with me at North Shore, NZ ex VH- AEN with QANTAS
G-ECAN, G-ACIT England
2more on rebuild in Australia.
Various Miles Gemini
ZK-AKH with me ex G-AKHW with Mayflower (Plymouth to Scilly)
ZK-ANT with MOTAT, Auckland.
G-AKHP with Taff up at Breighton
Various DH89 Rapides/Dominies
ZK-AKY at Mandiville ex N.A,C,
ZK-AHS at Motat ex N.A.C.
Zk AKU at Classic Flyers ex N.A.C.
plus all the other old battlers around the world
Viscount ZK-BR? at Ferrymead, Christchurch (NZ) ex N.A.C.
By: Arabella-Cox - 27th February 2019 at 15:55
Since the first list was compiled the Speke Aerodrome Historical Group have rescued and reassembled Avro/HS 748, G-BEJD at Liverpool.
It’s a bit more significant than “any old” 748 as it is believed to be the only Series 1 of the type remaining, it was in the first production batch and one of the first aircraft delivered to the launch customer, Aerolineas Argentinas back in 1962. So it’s likely to be the oldest extand 748 in the world.
Anon.
By: DH82EH - 27th February 2019 at 14:43
Mid Atlantic Air Museum in Reading Pennsylvania have N7471.
It is complete and intact.
Probably could be made to run again.
http://www.vickersviscount.net/Index/VickersViscount233History.aspx
By: Brenden S - 27th February 2019 at 05:46
Thanks to google for bringing up this thread. Does anyone know if there are any Vickers Viscounts that could still be ground run at all anywhere in the world?
By: RPSmith - 15th June 2009 at 10:53
Thanks GFR – information added.
Thanks Mark – ditto.
I’m having internet connection problems at present – my excuse if my posts ar erratic (time-wise) 😮
Roger Smith.
By: mark_pilkington - 14th June 2009 at 11:49
Thanks for replies again folks – list updated.
Mark thanks for those three (added) is that Moorabin??, any previous idents?
KEEP ‘EM COMING
Roger Smith.
Yes Roger, all 3 at Moorabbin
DH Heron
VH-CLX “Riley” conversion – Australian National Aviation Museum
s/n 14098 previously G-ANPV with Didmore Aviation
Bristol Freighter
VH-ADL former PAF Mk 31 – Australian National Aviation Museum
s/n 13193 previously S4428 with PAF and AP-ADM
Vickers Viscount
VH-TVR former TAA V816 – Australian National Aviation Museum
s/n 318 previously CU-T622 with Cubana in Cuba
Regards
Mark Pilkington
By: GFR - 14th June 2009 at 03:16
Roger,
The surviving ex-QANTAS HS125 is VH-ECE (MSN 25062) and the last known owner was a Grahame Onus. Data source for this information was http://www.adastron.com/707/qantas/hs125.htm
This site has photos and some references to other HS/DH 125 aircraft that were in Australia and is well worth a look.
Geoff
By: RPSmith - 13th June 2009 at 18:15
A84-232 Thanks have added those in – does 9M-ASB also belong to Australian Aviation Museum?
Archer those two added. Like Jetsteams, DH Dominies will hold off on the RAF VC.10s (unless “in preservation”)
garry no am not including noses – really needs to be a complete fuselage (made an exception with the Ashton at Newark due to it’s rarity.
Thanks again.
Roger Smith.
By: garryrussell - 13th June 2009 at 12:49
Dumfries and Galloway have the nose of Trident 1C G-ARPP
Garry
By: Archer - 13th June 2009 at 12:42
Vickers VC10
G-ARVF, Hermeskeil Germany
G-ARVM, Brooklands Museum, Weybridge Surrey (fuselage only)
And then there are also the 15 airframes still active with 101 Sqn at Brize Norton. Can we include those as well?
By: CanberraA84-232 - 13th June 2009 at 12:16
Ive actually turned up FOUR Twin Pins in Australia!
VH-AIS, sn/540, Stored off airport, Coolangatta, NSW
VH-EVB, sn/586, Australian Aviation Museum Bankstown, NSW
9M-ARU, sn/578, Australian Aviation Museum Bankstown, NSW
9M-ASB, sn/590, Spares use at Bankstown, NSW
I believe that ‘EVB is being restored to fly
By: RPSmith - 13th June 2009 at 09:39
Thanks for replies again folks – list updated.
Garry – I reckon thos Navy Jestreams would qualify as they were built as civil machines. ‘PWJ c/n corrected and fueslage of ‘OVS added
T.O. “post-war” to keep it manageable? but, saying that, there are actually so few pre-war types left so perhaps add them in later??
A84-232 thanks.
Mark thanks for those three (added) is that Moorabin??, any previous idents?
wcfcfan Wrecks & Relics lists XX105 complete and XX919 is only a nose – is that right?
WJ244 I should have got that one as it has been in my locality for a good while (with Air Atlantique), think it’s G-AORG but I’m not sure of current status or location.
DavidS/WJ244 yep the ex RAFMuseum Consul VR-SCD at Singapore added. Is that it’s true identity and was it G-AITB or ‘TF??
richellis Trident ‘WZK added
cometguy Dove ‘REA added and RAFMuseum Comet regn corrected
LindysLad Jetsream and S.330 added
GFR yes. do you have any identities for it, current owner???
dailee yes Beagle 206 G-ARRM added – is it with Shoreham Aircraft Museum?(presume it’s stil owned by Brooklands Museum) Have also added G-ASWJ -= shame on me for omitting that one when I was involved (a little bit) in getting it for MAM) 😮
I think thats replied/thanked everyone. I’m still picking through Wrecks and Relics but
KEEP ‘EM COMING
Roger Smith.
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