Aircraft Photo of VP-YNB | Vickers 748D Viscount | Central African Airways - CAA

Aircraft
Registration / Serial:	VP-YNB
Aircraft Original Type:	Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:	Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:	Vickers 748D Viscount
C/n (msn):	99
Operator Titles:	Central African Airways - CAA
Aircraft Name:	RMA Matopos

Location
City / Airport:	London - HeathrowMap
Region / Country:	England, United Kingdom
Airport Codes:	ICAO: EGLL IATA: LHR Local: - Other: -

Photo Date:	1956
Photo from:	Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID:	361370

Photo Comment
First flown 5 May 1956 and delivered to Central African Airways 17 May. When the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was dissolved and Malawi and Zambia gained independence, CAA became a holding company and the Viscounts operated with nameplates for the new airlines; Air Malawi, Air Rhodesia, and Zambia Airways. To Air Malawi as 7Q-YKO 1 January 1968, 1 January 1968 to Air Rhodesia as VP-YKB, to Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia June 1979, name changed to Air Zimbabwe February 1980. Re-registered Z-YNB October 1983. Withdrawn from use at Harare in December 1985 and broken up by 2000. Seen here at London Airport. Photographer unknown This photo was added on 14 May 2021, and has since been viewed 780 times.

Photo Comment

First flown 5 May 1956 and delivered to Central African Airways 17 May. When the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was dissolved and Malawi and Zambia gained independence, CAA became a holding company and the Viscounts operated with nameplates for the new airlines; Air Malawi, Air Rhodesia, and Zambia Airways. To Air Malawi as 7Q-YKO 1 January 1968, 1 January 1968 to Air Rhodesia as VP-YKB, to Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia June 1979, name changed to Air Zimbabwe February 1980. Re-registered Z-YNB October 1983. Withdrawn from use at Harare in December 1985 and broken up by 2000. Seen here at London Airport. Photographer unknown

This photo was added on 14 May 2021, and has since been viewed 780 times.

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