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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:807 Viscount
    Construction Number:282
    Last Civil Registration:N140RA
    Compressed ID:Vickers 807 cn 282 cr N140RA
    Latest Owner or Location:Southern International

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    Dates

    Event

    1959

    Constructed as a 807.

    31 January 1959

    To New Zealand National Airways Corporation with new c/r ZK-BRE.
    Operated with markings: City of Auckland

    29 November 1974

    To Montgomery Corporation keeping c/r ZK-BRE.

    9 June 1975

    To Air Caribbean with new c/r VP-LKA.

    February 1976

    To Atlas Air Systems with new c/r VP-LAU.

    October 1977


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Viscount at Fort Lauderdale in October 1977 was Air Caribbeans VP-LAU, still in NZNAC scheme

    February 1978

    To Southern International with new c/r G-CSZA.

    Civil registration N140RA reserved but not taken up.
    For Royal American Airways.

    May 1980

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Stansted, Essex in the UK.

    September 1982

    Scrapped.
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