Transferred from DDL on 1 August 1948, repainted in SAS livery shortly thereafter. Crashed into the sea near Copenhagen - Kastrup on 8 February 1949 on a flight from Madrid via Paris. The four crew and 23 Spanish tourists on board were all killed. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Last operated by the Metropolitan Communications Squadron from Northolt. SOC in January 1968, WJ504 ended its days with the Fire School at Catterick

Photo by John Wegg.

Ex-RAF VIP aircraft with the Metropolitan Communications Squadron at Northolt. Offered to Norfolk Air Scouts on retirement. Flown into Coltishall for removal of parts for other aircraft still in service, then made last flight into RAF Horsham St. Faith, later Norwich Airport, in December 1968. After several years, the aircraft was offered to the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum in 1982 and delivered on 27th May 1983, minus engines, underslung on Chinook HC.1 ZA675 of 7 Squadron as a training exercise. Current with the Museum in 2025.

Ex-RAF VIP aircraft with the Metropolitan Communications Squadron at Northolt. Offered to Norfolk Air Scouts on retirement. Flown into Coltishall for removal of parts for other aircraft still in service, then made last flight into RAF Horsham St. Faith, later Norwich Airport, in December 1968. After several years, the aircraft was offered to the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum in 1982 and delivered on 27th May 1983, minus engines, underslung on Chinook HC.1 ZA675 of 7 Squadron as a training exercise. Current with the Museum in 2025.

Ex WJ476 last operated by 2 ANS at Gaydon. To 5MU at Kemble for ground instruction in August 1966 and later scrapped. The nose survives at time of upload with AeroVenture at Doncaster.

Retired to RAF Henlow Museum Collection in November 1968 and to Cosford c1984. The aircraft remains there in deep storage at time of upload.

Operated by the Metropolitan Communications Squadron. Struck off Charge a month after this photo was taken and relegated to the fire dump at Thorney Island

Ex 2 Air Navigation School. Struck Off Charge in November 1967 and relegated to the dump at Gaydon, later scrapped.

Location unconfirmed, probably Bahrain or Sharjah.

Originally registered as G-AHPB. Fake registration D-BABY applied (original D-BABY was Vickers 621C Viking 2, c/n 150). The pictured Viking was trucked to the Museum in June 1988 and assembled over the following weeks, but the planned projects were not feasible. There are no records of what happened next, but as far as it is known, the aircraft was dismantled by 1991 and most of it was scrapped. A section of the left wing with the engine and the gear was put on display in a hairdressing salon (Marcos hAirbase) in downtown Zurich until the end of January 2018. The engine has found an unknown admirer.

Used by the fire section as 7476M. The Hunter is possibly an F1 previously with the local ATC squadron, but no identity is known. (Info is from the 1968 third edition of Wrecks & Relics with the location as Locking.This photograph was taken on the Weston-super-Mare airfield.)

Used by the fire section as 7476M. The Hunter is possibly an F1 previously with the local ATC squadron, but no identity is known. (Info is from the 1968 third edition of Wrecks & Relics with the location as Locking.This photograph was taken on the Weston-super-Mare airfield.)

This Viking is ex-RAF XF640. In civilian life it flew with Overseas Aviation and Autair before being preserved at a cafe, on the roof of the old Schwechat terminal and then (in fake Austrian Airlines colours) at a McDonalds near the airport. It sitting here forlorn, although part of the Austrian Aviation Museum at Bad Voslau. It was later sold back to the UK. Let's hope it will be restored for static display.

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Unknown photographer

Taken during Italian Car Day 2025, long-term restoration almost complete