Aircraft Photo of A2-ABY | Vickers 761D Viscount

Aircraft
Registration / Serial:	A2-ABY
Aircraft Original Type:	Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:	Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:	Vickers 761D Viscount
C/n (msn):	189

Location
City / Airport:	Johannesburg - OR Tambo InternationalMap
Country:	South Africa
Airport Codes:	ICAO: FAOR IATA: JNB Local: - Other: -

Photo Date:	January 1981
Photo from:	Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID:	870694

Photo Comment
Built for Union of Burma Airways as XY-ADG and first flew from Hurn 27 August 1957 with delivery on 26 September. To Aviation Hire & Traders 24 June 1976 as ZS-JVY, leased to Swazi Air July 1976, sub-leased to Air Botswana 1 March 1979, re-registered A2-ABY 29 May 1976. Returned to Aviation Hire January 1981 intially as A2-ABY, later ZS-JVY. Leased Royal Swazi National Airways January 1981 as 3D-ACV. Sold to United Air Services as ZS-JVY January 1983. To MMM Aero Services as 9Q-CVL July 1986. Withdrawn from use at Kinshasa March 1991 and broken up there. Photographer unknown This photo was added on 24 November 2025, and has since been viewed 42 times.

Photo Comment

Built for Union of Burma Airways as XY-ADG and first flew from Hurn 27 August 1957 with delivery on 26 September. To Aviation Hire & Traders 24 June 1976 as ZS-JVY, leased to Swazi Air July 1976, sub-leased to Air Botswana 1 March 1979, re-registered A2-ABY 29 May 1976. Returned to Aviation Hire January 1981 intially as A2-ABY, later ZS-JVY. Leased Royal Swazi National Airways January 1981 as 3D-ACV. Sold to United Air Services as ZS-JVY January 1983. To MMM Aero Services as 9Q-CVL July 1986. Withdrawn from use at Kinshasa March 1991 and broken up there. Photographer unknown

This photo was added on 24 November 2025, and has since been viewed 42 times.

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