Viscount Ident Required – Felixstowe 1960`s

Newforest appears to be the closest 🙂

Have a look on the site for the details if interested.

Thanks for your input.

I am very surprised that it’s proving so hard to find the answer to this. Hasn’t there been a detailed Viscount history published, with individual airframe histories?
I am not a big Viscount fan, so don’t have much info on the type, however most of the pictures that I have show the Lufthansa or Condor logo between the pitot head & the door, as in this picture. I accept that it’s not always there though.
Keep looking;)

Jamie, I have spent far too long looking into this mystery photo ! I have looked in depth at the viscount.net site, and , despite the dates being wrong, I wonder if the answer lies within that very good website, allow me to explain my dubious theory !
Apart from the overall colour scheme, the only giveaway in the pic, is the logo / badge position ? having searched every one of their pics the only viscount found with a logo in that position (seemingly different to the rest of the fleet) is D-ANEF c/n 343 of Lufthansa ????
If you go into their website and search for photos by construction number 343, it will give you 8 photos, one dated 1966 at LHR, shows the logo in this position and other photos show its fate, being purchased by Airwork Services and crashed, possibly on delivery, at Hurn, recorded as beyond repair !

Myabe the last pic before she crashed…
http://aviation-safety.net/photos/displayphoto.php?id=19720128-1&vnr=1&kind=PC

You must have spent twice as long on the photo search as I did and I think you have a possible career as a fiction writer, maybe!!:D

Hope the truth will out.:)

Jamie, I have spent far too long looking into this mystery photo ! I have looked in depth at the viscount.net site, and , despite the dates being wrong, I wonder if the answer lies within that very good website, allow me to explain my dubious theory !
Apart from the overall colour scheme, the only giveaway in the pic, is the logo / badge position ? having searched every one of their pics the only viscount found with a logo in that position (seemingly different to the rest of the fleet) is D-ANEF c/n 343 of Lufthansa ????
If you go into their website and search for photos by construction number 343, it will give you 8 photos, one dated 1966 at LHR, shows the logo in this position and other photos show its fate, being purchased by Airwork Services and crashed, possibly on delivery, at Hurn, recorded as beyond repair !
My theory (or imagination) goes on to think was the fuselage “boated” to Felixstowe for onward delivery to a fairly local scrapyard (stock) ????
I am prepared to be “shot down” on this ! Keith.

Thanks for the replies so far, I will pop over on PPRuNe and ask also.

If the plane was coming or going to the factory for repair (Weybridge?), would Felixstowe be the logical port? The colour scheme might suggest an Air Inter plane as I cannot find any German accidents that might correspond.

Hi Jamie just a thought but have you tried asking on the PPrune web site
they have a historic aviation section.

Sticking to your guns eh, MAYBE it was LT and the insignia was disguised to hide the identity of the ‘incident’?:confused:

You’re guessing that’s a blue window band?! Maybe, but the insignia in front of the door is not Lufthansa or Condor.

No, but it’s in exactly the right place, for at least one of the German schemes.

You’re guessing that’s a blue window band?! Maybe, but the insignia in front of the door is not Lufthansa or Condor.

It looks to me as if it’s a former Lufthansa/Condor aircraft. But that’s all I can come up with at the moment.:)

If you could just turn the picture sideways a bit so we could read the sign on the fuselage………;)