City / Airport:Bulawayo - Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (FVJN / BUQ)Map
Country:Zimbabwe
Photo Date:September 1979
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID:386248Submit Correction
View count: 588
Seen at Bulawayo Airport twelve months after sister ship VP-WAS Hunyani was shot down by a heat-seeking missile on depature from Kariba operating RH825 on 3 September 1978. Following the second shoot down of an Air Rhodesia Viscount, VP-YND Umniati, on 12 February 1979, the airline painted their Viscounts in a drab grey anti-missile colour scheme and added exhaust deflectors to minimize the heat signature of the engine exhaust.
Registration / Serial:VP-WAT
Aircraft Version:Vickers 782D Viscount
C/n (msn):298
Operator Titles:Air Rhodesia
City / Airport:Bulawayo - Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (FVJN / BUQ)Map
Country:Zimbabwe
Photo Date:September 1979
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
City / Airport:Bulawayo - Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (FVJN / BUQ)Map
Country:Zimbabwe
Photo Date:September 1979
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID:386248Submit Correction
View count: 588
Seen at Bulawayo Airport twelve months after sister ship VP-WAS Hunyani was shot down by a heat-seeking missile on depature from Kariba operating RH825 on 3 September 1978. Following the second shoot down of an Air Rhodesia Viscount, VP-YND Umniati, on 12 February 1979, the airline painted their Viscounts in a drab grey anti-missile colour scheme and added exhaust deflectors to minimize the heat signature of the engine exhaust.
Registration / Serial:VP-WAT
Aircraft Version:Vickers 782D Viscount
C/n (msn):298
Operator Titles:Air Rhodesia
City / Airport:Bulawayo - Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (FVJN / BUQ)Map
Country:Zimbabwe
Photo Date:September 1979
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection