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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:806 Viscount
    Construction Number:259
    Last Civil Registration:G-BLOA
    Compressed ID:Vickers 806 cn 259 cr G-BLOA
    Latest Owner or Location:British World Airlines

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a 806.

    8 January 1958

    To Brirish European Airlways with new c/r G-AOYJ.

    From October 1965 to May 1970

    To Cyprus Airways keeping c/r G-AOYJ.

    October 1970

    To Cambrian Airways keeping c/r G-AOYJ.

    31 July 1974


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At Glasgow Airport, Scotland

    August 1974

    To British Airways keeping c/r G-AOYJ.

    1 April 1981

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

    From May 1981 to October 1981

    To Air Algerie keeping c/r G-AOYJ.

    August 1984

    To British Air Ferries with new c/r G-BLOA.


    Photographer: Alan Pratt
    Notes: At Southend Airport, UK.

    From October 1984 to February 1985

    To Manx Airlines keeping c/r G-BLOA.

    June 1986

    To Guernsey Airlines keeping c/r G-BLOA.

    April 1993

    To British World Airlines keeping c/r G-BLOA.

    June 1993

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    At Southend, UK.
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