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Vickers Viking Type 610
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c/n 264
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Entered Service
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First Flew 6th April 1949
Purchased from BEA 8th April 1953
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Left Service
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Sold
to Airnautic on1st April 1961 as F-BJRS.
Continued in service with Air Dauphine and Transports Aeriens Reunis.
Withdrawn from service and broken up in Perpignan,France in January 1975. |
Named
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"Sir
Henry Morgan" |
History
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On
6th June 1953 G-AKBH flew Eagle Aviations first scheduled passenger flight.
This was between London(Blackbushe Airport) and Belgrade, via Munich.
Was badly damaged in a "belly landing" in Gothenburg on 24th February
1954, but was repaired and returned to service. |
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