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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:837 Viscount
    Last Military Serial:XT575 RAF
    Construction Number:438
    Last Civil Registration:LZ-BEO
    Compressed ID:Vickers 837 sn XT575 RAF cn 438 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England

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    Dates

    Event

    By 1960

    Constructed as a 837.

    17 February 1960

    First flight.

    29 February 1960

    To Austrian Airlines with new c/r OE-LAG.

    Circa 1961


    Photographer: Anthony Clarke
    Notes: At Cambridge, UK

    From May 1963 to October 1963

    To TABSO-Bulgarian Air Transport with new c/r LZ-BEO.

    31 October 1964

    To UK Ministry of Technology/RAE Royal Aircraft Establishment.

    New serial number assigned: XT575 RAF

    15 September 1979


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At RAF Abingdon

    12 July 1985


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: Landing at IAT Fairford.

    1991

    Withdrawn from use.
    Retired at Thurleigh.

    To Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Airport (formerly), Weybridge, Surrey, England.
    Only the cockpit section survives here.
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    6 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Cockpit of Vickers Viscount, s/n XT575 survives at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge

    6 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Cockpit of Vickers Viscount, s/n XT575 survives at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge
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