British four-engined medium-range turboprop airliner, 1948
Viscount
Cambrian Airways Vickers Viscount
Role
Turboprop airliner
Type of aircraft
National origin
United Kingdom
Manufacturer
Vickers-Armstrongs
First flight
16 July 1948
Introduction
18 April 1953 with British European Airways
Retired
January 2009
Status
Retired
Primary users
British European Airways Capital Airlines Trans-Canada Air Lines Air Canada
Produced
1948–1963
Number built
445
Developed into
Vickers Vanguard
The Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee, it entered service in 1953 and was the first turboprop-powered airliner.
The Viscount was well received by the public for its cabin conditions, which included pressurisation, reductions in vibration and noise, and panoramic windows. It became one of the most successful and profitable of the first postwar transport aircraft;[1] 445 Viscounts were built for a range of international customers, including in North America.
^"No Profit in Building Civil Aircraft in Britain?" New Scientist, 69(988). 19 February 1976. ISSN 0262-4079.
The VickersViscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee...
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began turboprop flights with the VickersViscount on the new medium-haul routes. The British-manufactured Viscount four engine turboprop, which Continental...
to withdraw from its loss-making regional routes and to retire its VickersViscount turboprop fleet, BAF acquired the entire 18-strong fleet along with...
DC-3 Dakotas, 12 Vickers Vikings, 3 Douglas DC-4s and various smaller types from the seven airlines that made it up. VickersViscounts were introduced...
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Brabazon Committee the VickersViscount was created: this was a medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs, making it the...
route structure, the airline became one of the early purchasers of VickersViscount 700s in 1951, which were placed in service in April 1954. In 1952,...
lost three Comet 4C's, two Caravelles, a Boeing 707, the Vickers VC10, and the VickersViscount - MEA restarted by acquiring a Convair 990A from American...
scheduled service, flying a leased VickersViscount from Vienna to Zürich and London; it subsequently purchased its own Viscount fleet. On 18 February 1963,...
its inter-island flights at this time with the Fairchild F-27 and VickersViscount turboprops. Soon, the airline made the move to pure jets, with its...
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However, the type was quickly outperformed by the turboprop-powered VickersViscount, with BEA opting to withdraw its Ambassadors in 1958. Secondhand aircraft...
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