NEVILLE DENTON COLLECTION
No. 7988. Vickers 708 Viscount (G-ARGR c/n 14) Dan Air London
Photographed in July 1977, by Neville Denton

Vickers 708 Viscount

06/30/2008. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Twelve Model 708 Viscount aircraft, powered by four 1,400 shp Rolls-Royce Dart R.Da1 Mk.505 turboprop engines, were ordered by Air France in November 1951. The first aircraft, F-BGNK c/n 8, flew on February 11, 1952, the pictured aircraft flew for the first time from Weybridge, Surrey, England, on August 26, 1953, registered as F-BGNN. It was shown at the SBAC show at Farnborough, Hampshire, in September and delivered to the airline on October 29, 1953.

On April 24, 1960 it was withdrawn from service and delivered to Marshalls at Teversham, Cambridge, for resale. In June it was sold to Maitland Drewery Aviation Ltd and registered in the UK as G-ARGR on December 20, 1960. It received its UK CofA on June 20, 1961 and immediately leased to BKS Air Transport Ltd, while on December 6 it was leased to Silver City Airways. On January 1, 1962 Silver City merged into BUA (British United Airways) and the aircraft was sold to BUA on April 3, 1962.

It was sold to the French airline Air Inter registered as F-BOEB and delivered on September 29, 1966. In April 1975 it returned again to the UK when it was sold to Alidair and received its previous UK registration G-ARGR again on May 30. Subsequently it was leased to a number of airlines:


Created June 30, 2008