As the Rhodesian Bush War was in its final phases, the name of the country was changed to Zimbabwe Rhodesia in June 1979. Air Rhodesia changed its name to Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia still in Air Rhodesia's low visibility, anti-missile colour scheme with a dull green cheat line. This was changed back to blue, white and polished metal when the airline was renamed to Air Zimbabwe the following year.

Note the long "radar nose" which was installed with both VH-TVN & VH-TVM prior to the actual installation of weather radar. Also the fitting of "Slipper Tanks" to assist endurance over lengthy segments for which the basic aircraft wasn't capable of performing at the time. Scanned from a K64 slide at 4000DPI.

Sold in Botswana as A2-ZEL. It was the only Viscount 700 series to escape the air safety order that saw all other surviving Australian V700s grounded permanently