Vickers Viscount facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Vickers Viscount

Vickers Viscount landing.
Role	Airliner
National origin	UK.
Manufacturer	Vickers
First flight	1948
Introduction	1950
Status	Out of service
Produced	1948-1963
Number built	445 examples

The Vickers Viscount is a British airliner. It is a four-turboprop civilian aircraft. It can carry between 65 and 75 passengers. The Vanguard is an enlarged cargo aircraft variant. It was used by Air France, BOAC, United Airlines and many other airlines in the world.

Images for kids

Five-abreast cabin
Type 663 Tay Viscount demonstrating at Farnborough in September 1950
The Viscount's large oval windows, Air Zimbabwe 1981
Viscount 700 prototype G-AMAV as competitor No. 23 in the NZ Air Race at London Airport, 8 October 1953
Trans-Canada Airlines Viscount making a low pass sometime in the 1960s
National Airways Viscount at Wellington Airport, 1971
Viscount 701 of Cambrian Airways at Bristol Airport, 1963
British European Airways Vickers Viscount 802 at London Heathrow Airport in 1964. Behind it is a BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident and on the right a BEA Vickers Vanguard
Tail fin of a Viscount 757 at the Western Canada Aviation Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Vickers Viscount Type 724 (Registration N22SN c/n 40) in Viscount Air Services Inc. colours at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona, USA.