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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:843 Viscount
    Last Military Serial:50258 PLAAF
    Construction Number:453
    Last Civil Registration:B-406
    Compressed ID:Vickers 843 sn 50258 PLAAF cn 453 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:China Aviation Museum, Xiaotanzhanzen (previously Datang Shan), Beijing

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 843.

    From 8 November 1962 to 19 September 1963

    To Vickers Armstrong (Aircraft) Ltd with new c/r G-ASDS.

    From 19 September 1963 to 1974

    To Civil Aviation Administration of China with new c/r 406.

    From 1974 to January 1983

    To Civil Aviation Administration of China with new c/r B-406.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Peoples Liberation Army Air Force with s/n 50258.

    September 1990

    Placed on display with China Aviation Museum, Xiaotanzhanzen (previously Datang Shan), Beijing.
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    By 6 November 2008

    Markings Applied: 50258
    China United Airlines c/s, white upper surfaces, turquoise blue lower surfaces, China United Airlines in Chinese script on upper fuselage.

    6 November 2008


    Photographer: Alec Wilson
    Notes: Vickers Viscount at the China Aviation Museum, Xiaotangshanzen, Datang Shan, Beijing, China. Photo displayed with written permission of Alec Wilson

    By 20 September 2011

    Markings Applied: 50258
    China United Airlines titles no longer on upper fuselage.

    20 September 2011


    Photographer: John Bennett
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    Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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