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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:701 Viscount
    Construction Number:7
    Last Civil Registration:G-AMOG
    Compressed ID:Vickers 701 cn 7 cr G-AMOG
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 701.

    11 February 1953

    First flight.

    27 March 1953

    To British European Airways with new c/r G-AMOG.

    Circa 1958


    Photographer: David Gibbs
    Notes: At Heathrow Airport in the late 1950s

    28 January 1963

    To Cambrian Airways keeping c/r G-AMOG.

    April 1972

    Leased to British Overseas Airways Corporation.

    May 1973


    Photographer: David A. Montgomery
    Notes: G-AMOG Scottish Prince Vickers 701 Viscount sits at Prestwicks Main Terminal. Leased from Cambrian Airways

    15 July 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Viscount G-AMOG named Scottish Prince of British Overseas Airways Corporation at Prestwick Airport, Ayrshire.

    1 April 1974

    To British Airways keeping c/r G-AMOG.
    BOAC merged to become British Airways.

    31 March 1976

    Withdrawn from use.

    27 April 1976

    To Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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    1 August 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Former British Airways Viscount as displayed at RAF Cosford in the Summer of 1976.

    To National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland.
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    Markings Applied: Robert Falcon Scott

    30 May 2005


    Photographer: Clive Hindmarch
    Notes: Ex British European Airways, Vickers Viscount at Cosford Museum 30th May 2005.

    9 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Preserved at The Museum of Flight, East Fortune, Scotland
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