5 results found
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:MacRobertson Miller Airlines - MMA
Aircraft Name:RMA Quininup
City / Airport:Perth (YPPH / PER)Map
Region / Country:Western Australia, Australia
Photo Date:13 September 1968 to 31 December 1968
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Photo ID:307895Submit Correction
View count: 781
Crashed on descent to Port Hedland on December 31, 1968 after the starboard wing failed. It led to the grounding all Australian Viscounts. Viscount 810s were cleared to fly again but the remaining Viscount 700s were grounded permanently. RMQ had been the second Australian Viscount, delivered in October 1954 as VH-TVB for TAA. VH-TVA and VH-TVC were also lost in fatal accidents, TVA in a training accident before entering service and TVC broke up in a storm in November 1961 while departing Sydney for Canberra when on lease to Ansett-ANA.
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:MacRobertson Miller Airlines - MMA
City / Airport:Perth (YPPH / PER)Map
Region / Country:Western Australia, Australia
Photo Date:13 September 1968 to 31 December 1968
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:MacRobertson Miller Airlines - MMA
Aircraft Name:RMA Quininup
City / Airport:Perth (YPPH / PER)Map
Region / Country:Western Australia, Australia
Photo Date:13 September 1968 to 31 December 1968
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Photo ID:307895Submit Correction
View count: 781
Crashed on descent to Port Hedland on December 31, 1968 after the starboard wing failed. It led to the grounding all Australian Viscounts. Viscount 810s were cleared to fly again but the remaining Viscount 700s were grounded permanently. RMQ had been the second Australian Viscount, delivered in October 1954 as VH-TVB for TAA. VH-TVA and VH-TVC were also lost in fatal accidents, TVA in a training accident before entering service and TVC broke up in a storm in November 1961 while departing Sydney for Canberra when on lease to Ansett-ANA.
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:MacRobertson Miller Airlines - MMA
City / Airport:Perth (YPPH / PER)Map
Region / Country:Western Australia, Australia
Photo Date:13 September 1968 to 31 December 1968
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Registration / Serial:VH-TVB
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Melbourne - Essendon (YMEN / MEB)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:13 August 1962
Photo by:Peter GatesContact
Photo ID:242539Submit Correction
View count: 342
My thanks to the late John Hopton for the loan of his negative of VH-TVB while leased to Ansett-ANA from July 1962 to August 1962 before eventual sale to Ansett-ANA in October 1962 and re-registered as VH-RMQ.
Registration / Serial:VH-TVB
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Melbourne - Essendon (YMEN / MEB)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:13 August 1962
Photo by:Peter GatesContact
Registration / Serial:VH-TVB
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Melbourne - Essendon (YMEN / MEB)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:13 August 1962
Photo by:Peter GatesContact
Photo ID:242539Submit Correction
View count: 342
My thanks to the late John Hopton for the loan of his negative of VH-TVB while leased to Ansett-ANA from July 1962 to August 1962 before eventual sale to Ansett-ANA in October 1962 and re-registered as VH-RMQ.
Registration / Serial:VH-TVB
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Melbourne - Essendon (YMEN / MEB)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:13 August 1962
Photo by:Peter GatesContact
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Melbourne - Essendon (YMEN / MEB)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:December 1963
Photo from:Peter Gates CollectionContact
Photo ID:110916Submit Correction
View count: 367
Originally VH-TVB with TAA.
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Melbourne - Essendon (YMEN / MEB)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:December 1963
Photo from:Peter Gates CollectionContact
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Melbourne - Essendon (YMEN / MEB)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:December 1963
Photo from:Peter Gates CollectionContact
Photo ID:110916Submit Correction
View count: 367
Originally VH-TVB with TAA.
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Melbourne - Essendon (YMEN / MEB)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:December 1963
Photo from:Peter Gates CollectionContact
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Melbourne - Essendon (YMEN / MEB)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:September 1965
Photo from:Peter Gates CollectionContact
Photo ID:36731Submit Correction
View count: 616
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Melbourne - Essendon (YMEN / MEB)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:September 1965
Photo from:Peter Gates CollectionContact
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Melbourne - Essendon (YMEN / MEB)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:September 1965
Photo from:Peter Gates CollectionContact
Photo ID:36731Submit Correction
View count: 616
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Melbourne - Essendon (YMEN / MEB)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:September 1965
Photo from:Peter Gates CollectionContact
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (YSSY / SYD)Map
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Photo Date:1966
Photo by:David CarterContact
Photo ID:356Submit Correction
View count: 375
Ex VH-TVB, joined Ansett in 1962. Transferred to subsidiary MMA in 1968. Wing failed in flight December 31, 1968 leading to the permanent grounding of all Viscount V700 series in Australia.
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (YSSY / SYD)Map
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Photo Date:1966
Photo by:David CarterContact
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (YSSY / SYD)Map
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Photo Date:1966
Photo by:David CarterContact
Photo ID:356Submit Correction
View count: 375
Ex VH-TVB, joined Ansett in 1962. Transferred to subsidiary MMA in 1968. Wing failed in flight December 31, 1968 leading to the permanent grounding of all Viscount V700 series in Australia.
Registration / Serial:VH-RMQ
Aircraft Version:Vickers 720 Viscount
C/n (msn):45
Operator Titles:Ansett - ANA
City / Airport:Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (YSSY / SYD)Map
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Photo Date:1966
Photo by:David CarterContact