Parked in the museum in Istanbul, this Viscount was retired only four years prior to this picture being taken.

The Viscount was undergoing maintenance at Stansted at the time. This is probably a test flight or departure. Photo by : Pol van Damme

Delivered to Turk Hava Yollari as TC-SEL in 1958. To the Turkish Air Force as 430 in 1971. To the Museum in 1990.

A slightly frayed Viscount, formerly TC-SEL. Sorry for the Transall wingtip which would not go out of my viewfinder.

The highlight of an Ankara trip - had recently landed with VIPs on board - and just in time, as within a few weeks of the photo, this superb Viscount (formerly THY's TC-SEL) was retired to the Yesilkoy museum where she still resides. Was briefly marked up in old THY colours to represent TC-SEV for a film in 2006. That aircraft crashed on approach to Gatwick in 2.59 carrying the Turkish prime minister