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:	1960
Photo from:	Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID:	527083

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 Withdrawn from use at Harare in December 1985 and broken up by 2000. Photographer unknown This photo was added on 7 December 2022, and has since been viewed 265 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 Withdrawn from use at Harare in December 1985 and broken up by 2000. Photographer unknown

This photo was added on 7 December 2022, and has since been viewed 265 times.

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