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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:708 Viscount
    Construction Number:35
    Last Civil Registration:F-BGNR
    Compressed ID:Viscount 708 cn 35 cr F-BGNR
    Latest Owner or Location:Midland Air Museum, Coventry Baginton Airport, West Midlands, Warwickshire / Warks, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 708 by Viscount at Hurn.

    29 June 1954

    To Air France with new c/r F-BGNR.

    20 February 1962

    To Air Inter keeping c/r F-BGNR.

    20 August 1966


    Photographer: Robert A. Edwards
    Notes: F-BGNR Vickers V.701 Viscount (35) Air Inter at Paris Orly 20 August 1966

    6 October 1973

    To Air Service Traiinng (Perth) Ltd.

    9 April 1974


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1974 photo at Perth, Scotland of an ex Air Inter Viscount

    January 1998

    To Skyport Engineering.

    12 January 1998

    To Thorncote Green, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
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    12 January 2007

    To Viscount 35 Association, RAF Coventry, West Midlands, Warwickshire/Warks, England.
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    10 July 2008

    To Midland Air Museum, Coventry Baginton Airport, West Midlands, Warwickshire/Warks, England.
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    4 February 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Located within the Midland Air Museum at Coventry
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