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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:708 Viscount
    Construction Number:014
    Last Civil Registration:9Q-CAN
    Compressed ID:Vickers 708 cn 014 cr 9Q-CAN
    Latest Owner or Location:MMM Aero Service

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a 708.

    29 October 1953

    To Air France with new c/r F-BGNN.


    Photographer: Tony Clarke Collection
    Notes: At London Heathrow

    December 1960

    To Maitland Drewery Aviation with new c/r G-ARGR.

    From 20 June 1961 to November 1961

    Leased to BKS Air Transport.

    6 December 1961

    Leased to Silver City Airways.

    January 1962

    Leased to British United Airlines.

    September 1966

    To Air Inter with new c/r F-BOEB.

    28 April 1975

    To Alidair with new c/r G-ARGR.

    23 December 1978


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At Glasgow Airport

    January 1981

    To Inter City Airlines keeping c/r G-ARGR.

    26 August 1983


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: G-ARGR : Vickers Viscount 708 : Inter City Airlines at Aberdeen Airport, Scotland - Believed to have been operated by British Air Ferries, as Inter City had recently ceased operations.

    17 September 1983

    To British Air Ferries keeping c/r G-ARGR.

    22 December 1983

    To Janus Airways keeping c/r G-ARGR.

    22 November 1984

    To MMM Aero Service with new c/r 9Q-CAN.

    1987

    Scrapped.
    At Kinshasa.
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