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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:837 Viscount
    Construction Number:442
    Last Civil Registration:HK-1347
    Compressed ID:Vickers 837 cn 442 cr HK-1347

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 837.
    First flight 22 Jul 1960 - Registered to Austrian Airlines as OE-LAM in Aug. 1960 - Re-registered by Austrian Air Transport as OE-IAM in April 1964 - sold to TAC Colombiain Nov 1971 - crashed at Funza, Colombia on 21 Jan 1972.

    To unknown owner with c/r OE-LAM.

    To unknown owner with c/r OE-IAM.

    To unknown owner with c/r HK-1347.

    9 June 1968


    Photographer: John Smith / Rob Braithwaite
    Notes: 1968 photo of Austrian Airlines Viscount on the apron at East Midlands Airport. Photo displayed with written permission of Rob Braithwaite
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