Aircraft Photo of VP-YNB | Vickers 748D Viscount | Central African Airways - CAA | AirHistory.net #419987
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 / Air Rhodesia
Aircraft Name:RMA Matopos
Location
City / Airport:KaribaMap
Country:Zimbabwe
Airport Codes:ICAO: FVKB   IATA: KAB   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:1966
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID: 419987
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 Withdrawn from use at Harare in December 1985 and broken up by 2000.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 Kariba with the interchangeable plates on the tail operating an Air Rhodesia service to Salisbury. Photographer unknown

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