Is the Andover the same one that was offered for sale by Hanningfield Metals at the same time that Viscount cockpit of G-AOHL was for sale I wonder? The andover was listed as being ex queens flight?

just seen it on Kevin McCloud’s man made home…. he was there getting an engine cowling to use as a hot tub…

Thats a great model! I had a base board made up, just a tad smaller though so I could display some of the Viscounts i’d bought over time, I then had my brother in law make it into a coffee table…. Missus not keen on it but hey ho! :p

Did this aircraft not actually enter service with Channel Airways then? I have just got back from Southend and have been thru my aircraft things and found the logbook I have. There are bits of paper listing modification numbers, rigging data etc but in the the actual log there are only a few entries they are :-

10 May 1965 Phase one inspection completed
12 Feb 1967 Phase two inspection completed
12 Apr 1967 Check number two complete

then there are a few details about ferry flights and totals, then under this, written in pencil is written ‘Cr. during t/o for C of A airtest 3/5/1967’

well, I’ve just torn house apart to find log book (missus has hump but hohum!) and I cant find it which means it must be with my other Viscount/Southend bits in Southend… I shall be down there within next couple of weeks…

Sorry to resurect an old thread, but my dad and I were talking about this crash the other day… he was hanging around the area with his pals at the time and was told to clear off by groundstaff, he recalls shortly after, the viscount came down and he and his pals ducked for cover in the brook that aparently runs by the runway….