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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:701 Viscount
    Construction Number:5
    Last Civil Registration:G-ALWF
    Compressed ID:Vickers 701 cn 5 cr G-ALWF
    Latest Owner or Location:Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 701.

    2 January 1950

    To Vickers with new c/r G-ALWF.

    3 December 1952

    First flight.

    2 February 1953

    To British European Airways keeping c/r G-ALWF.
    Markings added: Sir John Franklin

    March 1964

    To Channel Airways, Southend keeping c/r G-ALWF.

    18 November 1964

    Loaned to British Eagle International Airlines.

    Markings Applied: City of Exeter
    Markings displayed while in British Eagle service.

    15 December 1965

    To Cambrian Airways keeping c/r G-ALWF.

    12 April 1972

    Last flight.
    Flown to Liverpool.

    21 February 1976

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Duxford Aviation Society, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
    Arrived by road from Speke.
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    Markings Applied: British European Airways

    27 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: In open preservation at Imperial War Museum, Duxford in UK

    10 November 2013


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England


    Photographer: Earl A Holmquist
    Notes: Photographed at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK.
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    Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
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