Type and Series Please?

Sorry no BKS or Norteast, but two more for you ! Keith.

The answer to my question regarding Viscount N501TL is that the photo was taken at Sumburgh, Shetland.circa 1978
The slightly unusual feature is that the aircraft has slipper tanks fitted.Although strangely enough, other folks photos of the aircraft taken at its detached base at Aberdeen, Dyce have the tanks off.I cannot imagine there was a problem with range from Aberdeen- Sumburgh.
If my memory serves me right this aircraft had a bath fitted on board when operating out in the Middle East. Although there was no sign of it when I flew out of there. Seats were needed for the oilmen!
Note the public road next to the aircraft!

Here is one for you Viscount fans …first seen by me at Hurn in the V-A hangars in May 1957 whilst still being built …the photo was at Rockcliffe.ONT in 1995.

Now lets hope I can get the picture up…..

A Northern Touch….

No BKS and North East Airlines pictures out there??

East Midlands and the factr that it never appeared on the UK register as it was only leased to Alidair and continued to carry US markings?

Thinking about it (and your previous pictures) it’s not EMA but is presumably somewhere in Scotland. I don’t recognise the fence and the track so will make a wild guess and say Lossiemouth… :p

AFAIK there was a problem with certifying it in the UK (maybe because of cockpit differences from the UK certification standard; it had also spent most of its life as a corporate machine with Tenneco) and so Alidair disposed of it to Far Eastern Air Transport, after which it ended up with Bouraq in Indonesia. As PK-IVS it crashed on 26 August 1980 after the starboard elevator detached from the aircraft in flight.

East Midlands and the factr that it never appeared on the UK register as it was only leased to Alidair and continued to carry US markings?

Ok then, Viscount lovers, where is this, and what is unusual about it?

Incidentally, those 700 Darts had a slightly different engine note from the 800 series in that, when the aircraft was shut down on the apron, the props would windmill if the wind was strong enough, (which at Sumburgh was quite frequently).
Having worked there on the ground, part time, in my younger days I vividly recall being asked to help on start up and hold the blades still. Unfortunately, the engine wouldn`t start unless the propeller was stationary. The procedure for start was that I would hold the prop still and when I received a nod from the aircrew then that would be the time that they would start the engine and be prepared to let go.

I have never seen my hand move away so fast I can tell you when the blade moved!
Interesting times!

It was Viscount 700 G-ARBY, just before her unscheduled night landing near Exeter – happily from which everyone walked away.

Was that the episode where it ran out of fuel and literally glided into a field, short of the airport?

BE8192/99 went Glasgow-Edinburgh-Aberdeen-Inverness-Wick-Kirkwall-Lerwick in those days and was a Viscount and provided me with my first flight back in 1974.

Viscount 700’s continued in use until the late 1990’s

In 1981 the were many in service throughout the world

The second pic above seems to have the bulged engines of either an 800 or 700D, not the type of engine as fitted to straight 700’s? meaning it couldn’t be G-ARBY :confused:

Always worrying when your own flying life starts to appear in a historic forum…were these the last working Viscount 700s? (pics taken Aberdeen/Sumburgh 1981)

Excellent photo and hopefully the start of an interesting thread.

It was Viscount 700 G-ARBY, just before her unscheduled night landing near Exeter – happily from which everyone walked away.

They used Viscounts on the Shetlands Aberdeen oil rig run

Viscount 800? :confused: