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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:708 Viscount
    Construction Number:38
    Last Civil Registration:F-BGNU
    Compressed ID:Viscount 708 cn 38 cr F-BGNU
    Latest Owner or Location:Auto und Technik Museum - Sinsheim, Sinsheim, Baden-Wurttemberg

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 708 by Viscount at Hurn.

    5 July 1954

    First flight.

    28 July 1954

    To Air France with new c/r F-BGNU.
    The delivery date is provided.

    6 January 1961

    Leased to Air Vietnam.

    26 June 1975


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Seen here at Mulhouse-Habsheim, France on 26 June 1975.

    To Auto und Technik Museum-Sinsheim, Sinsheim, Baden-Wurttemberg.
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    22 March 1996


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Sinsheim, Germany with Air Inter c/s and fake Museum Airlines titles

    2007


    Photographer: Andy West
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Vickers Viscount.net
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