| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | VH-TVL |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Vickers Viscount |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Vickers Viscount |
| Aircraft Version: | Vickers 756D Viscount |
| C/n (msn): | 197 |
| Location | |
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| City / Area: | Wellcamp / Aviation Museum [ Off-Airport, gone ]Map |
| Region / Country: | Queensland, Australia |
| Collection: | Toowoomba Aviation Museum |
| Photo Date: | April 1977 |
| Photo by: | David Carter |
| Photo ID: | 15876 |
| Photo Comment |
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VH-TVL flew with Trans-Australian Airlines until August 1969 when it was placed in storage at Brisbane Airport. A ban on the export Viscount 700 aircraft resulted in it being sold in 1971 to the Toowoomba Aviation Museum at Wellcamp, on the edge of Toowoomba. The museum was more like an overgrown scrapyard in 1977 and in 1978 VH-TVL was sold to a Toowoomba scrap dealer. It survived in an ever-diminishing condition until it was moved to a caravan park at Miles, Queensland, in 2013. It has since been cleaned up, repainted and fitted with dummy wings and engines as a tourist attraction. This photo is copyright © David Carter, and may not be used or published in any way without permission. It was added on 25 October 2017, and has since been viewed 380 times. |