The Viking preservation shame………….

Has it got engines? Those nacelles look a bit empty.

Engines are removed since a long time, probably since the beginning of his storage in the Mulhouse car museum.

Thanks to all for your answers. I never heard about this airworthy preservation project!

…a dodgy looking effort in SA ( it has tricycle undercarriage

Isn’t that a Varisty?!:D

This is Wiki’s list of survivors,
Viking 1A G-AGRU On display at Brooklands Museum, Surrey, England
Viking 1A G-AGRW On display near Vienna Schewat airport, Austria (ex XF640)
Viking 1 G-AHPB On display in Switzerland
Viking 1 ZS-DKH Preserved South Africa (ex XD635)
Viking 1B On display Argentina
Viking 1B J-750 (Pakistan Air Force) – On display Peshwar, Pakistan.
Dosen’t even mention the discussed one which brings the list to seven

Apart from the Swiss one, the Brooklands example, the superb looking ex-Jinnah one in Pakistan, a dodgy looking effort in SA ( it has tricycle undercarriage), and one listed in Austria, what others remain, apart from the Dinky Toys survivor from my childhood.

This should help answer your question 🙂

http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/Viking%20Census.htm

Jon

As said in posts there are a few around. Located both above and below sea level.

http://www.sportesport.it/images/Wrecks/France/viking.jpg

Lost 5/8/59 in 11 mtr off Mortoli.

Regards
Ross

Apart from the Swiss one, the Brooklands example, the superb looking ex-Jinnah one in Pakistan, a dodgy looking effort in SA ( it has tricycle undercarriage), and one listed in Austria, what others remain, apart from the Dinky Toys survivor from my childhood.

As said in posts there are a few around. Located both above and below sea level.

http://www.sportesport.it/images/Wrecks/France/viking.jpg

Lost 5/8/59 in 11 mtr off Mortoli.

Regards
Ross

Hmm the last existing Vickers Viking being returned to flightworthy condition!
Spot the mistake and unrealistic(?) dream!

The accident report from 1953, fifty five years waiting for restoration!:D

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19530812-1

Despite appearances, there is a group working to save this machine:

http://www.save-a-viking.org/de/

Save A Viking is the first project of the Vintage Aircraft Club, set up to save the last existing (?) “Vickers Viking” from scrapping and to get it to Basel. The airplane belongs to the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) Alsace based at Basel Mulhouse Freiburg Airport, to whom the aircraft was donated by the Schlumpf Autmobile Collection/Museum. The aim appears to be to return it to flightworthy condition for possible use for the members of the Vintage aircraft club – if my very rusty German has translated the page correctly!

Work will be ongoing this summer.

Google toolbar translator is your friend….

Despite appearances, there is a group working to save this machine:

http://www.save-a-viking.org/de/

Save A Viking is the first project of the Vintage Aircraft Club, set up to save the last existing (?) “Vickers Viking” from scrapping and to get it to Basel. The airplane belongs to the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) Alsace based at Basel Mulhouse Freiburg Airport, to whom the aircraft was donated by the Schlumpf Autmobile Collection/Museum. The aim appears to be to return it to flightworthy condition for possible use for the members of the Vintage aircraft club – if my very rusty German has translated the page correctly!

Work will be ongoing this summer.

Brooklands already got a Viking haven’t they?

Science Museum I think ought to be interested – but I bet they’re not 🙁

Roger Smith.

Viking G-AIVG c/n 220. First flight 20.5.47. To B.E.A as “Viceroy”. Renamed in Admiral Class as”Sir George Rooke” in 1951. Damaged beyond repair when tyre burst on take off at Le Bourget 12.8.53.

I do hope somebody can save this machine, where are all the panels’s ? Someone like Brookland’s museum would benefit this aircraft.