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    Airframe Family: Vickers 491-657 Viking / 637/651 Valletta
    Latest Model:Viking 1A
    Last Military Serial:XF640 RAF
    Construction Number:115
    Last Civil Registration:G-AGRW
    Latest Owner or Location:Blackbushe Heritage Trust, Camberley, Hampshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Viking 1A.

    8 May 1946

    To Ministry of Supply with new c/r G-AGRW.

    24 July 1946

    To British Overseas Airways Corporation, British European Airways Division keeping c/r G-AGRW.

    2 May 1951

    To Hunting Air Travel Ltd keeping c/r G-AGRW.

    Circa 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XF640.
    For temporary trooping contract.

    By 18 December 1959

    To Overseas Aviation with new c/r G-AGRW (VICKERS VIKING 1, 115).

    17 February 1960

    Crashed.
    Summary: The damage to the airframe was substantial. The accident occurred at Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport (AMS) (United Kingdom) while taxiing. The airframe was repaired. Narrative: After landing, in surface wind reported as 285 degrees 21 knots, the aircraft taxied along runway 14. While the brakes were being applied to check the aircrafts speed prior to turn-off, the port main landing gear tyre burst. The aircraft tipped forward causing damage to the propellers and front lower fuselage structure...
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    24 January 1962

    To Autair Ltd keeping c/r G-AGRW.

    14 August 1965


    Photographer: Steve Bond
    Notes: Viking 1B G-AGRW Autair Luton 14 August 1965.

    19 February 1968

    Civil registration, G-AGRW, cancelled.

    19 March 1987


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: G-AGRW displayed near Vienna Airport, Austria

    20 March 1999


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Now at a new display area at the roof of Vienna Airport, Austria

    To McDonalds Restaurant, Schwechat, Niederosterreich.
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    16 September 2008


    Photographer: Peter Luke
    Notes: 2008 photo - when located at McDonalds in Vienna

    19 June 2011

    To Austrian Aviation Museum, Wien-Voslau Airport, Kottingbrunn, Lower Austria.
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    13 August 2016


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Voeslau Airport

    11 September 2021


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Former G-AGRW in front of the Austrian Aviation Museum at Voeslau, Austria, having lost its vertical stabiliser in a storm

    11 September 2021


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Former G-AGRW will be transported to a new owner in UK in the near future, leaving the Austrian Aviation Museum at Voeslau, Austria

    2 May 2023

    To Blackbushe Heritage Trust, Camberley, Hampshire, England.
    Restoration for future museum.
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    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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    Mike Henniger
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