| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | 3D-AAL |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Vickers Viscount |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Vickers Viscount |
| Aircraft Version: | Vickers 754D Viscount |
| C/n (msn): | 240 |
| Operator Titles: | Swazi Air |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | Manzini - MatsaphaMap |
| Country: | Eswatini |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: FDMS IATA: MTS Local: - Other: - |
| Photo Date: | October 1976 |
| Photo from: | Kjell O Granlund Collection |
| Photo ID: | 404866 |
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First flown at Hurn on 29 August 1957 at Hurn as part of an order for BOAC Associated Companies. The first operator was Middle East Airlines where c/n 240 flew as OD-ACU. MEA sub-leased OD-ACU to Jersey Airlines before purchasing it from BOAC for lease to Jordan Airways in 1961. Returned to MEA in 1964, it was sold to Air Rhodesia as VP-WAR in 1968. In 1976 it was sold to Aviation Hire & Travel as ZS-JPU and leased to Swazi Air. Re-registered 3D-AAL the same year, it remained on lease to Swazi until 1979 when returned for lease to Air Rhodesia. Sold to Air Zimbabwe in 1981 and scrapped in 1986 This photo was added on 24 October 2021, and has since been viewed 487 times. |