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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:757 Viscount
    Last Civil Registration:CF-THG
    Compressed ID:Vickers 757 cr CF-THG
    Latest Owner or Location:British Columbia Aviation Museum, Victoria Airport (formerly Patricia Bay Airport), Victoria, British Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 757.

    19 March 1957

    First flight.

    28 March 1957

    To Trans Canada Air Lines with new c/r CF-THG.

    1 June 1964

    To Air Canada keeping c/r CF-THG.

    27 April 1974

    To United Aircraft Services keeping c/r CF-THG.

    17 January 1977

    To Beaver Enterprises Ltd, Montreal, QC keeping c/r CF-THG.

    21 January 1977

    To Harrison Airways keeping c/r CF-THG.

    17 February 1977

    Civil registration, CF-THG, cancelled.

    10 June 1980

    To Pacific Vocational Institute.

    From 1980 to 1995

    Used as an instructional airframe at Vancouver Airport.

    1995

    Retired and used by the Fire Training Services at the Vancouver Airport.

    27 July 1996


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 1996 Photo at Vancouver International - at this time the aircraft was used by the Fire Department

    2005

    To British Columbia Aviation Museum, Victoria Airport (formerly Patricia Bay Airport), Victoria, BC.
    The museum purchased the airframe for the sum of one dollar. It was ferried to Patricia Bay Coast Guard Station for unloading and onward by road to the Museum.
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    15 September 2012


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At BC Aviation Museum, Victoria Airport on Vancouver Island
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     Terry Fletcher
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