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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:806 Viscount
    Construction Number:263
    Last Civil Registration:G-OPAS
    Compressed ID:Vickers 806 cn 263 cr G-OPAS
    Latest Owner or Location:Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a 806.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-AOYN.

    March 1958

    First flight.

    26 March 1958

    To BEA.

    30 December 1971

    To Cambrian Airways.

    1 April 1974

    Cambrian merged with BEA.

    April 1980

    Withdrawn from use and placed in storage at Cardiff Rhoose Airport.

    16 February 1981

    To British Air Ferries.

    May 1981

    Leased to Oasis Oil Company.

    January 1984

    To Panavia Air Cargo.

    Leased to British Air Ferries.

    April 1993

    To British World Airlines.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-OPAS.

    5 October 1994

    To B. W. A with new c/r G-OPAS.

    June 1996

    Withdrawn from use and stored Southend Airport.

    February 1997

    Broken up with the forward fuselage sent to Duxford.

    2007

    To Bounemouth Aviation Museum, Bournemouth International Airport, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
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    By 16 May 2012

    Markings Applied: PARCEL FORCE International

    16 May 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Bournemouth Aviation Museum

    16 May 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Viscount Cabin at Bournemouth Aviation Museum
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