Aircraft Photo of A2-ABY | Vickers 761D Viscount | United Air Service - UAS | AirHistory.net #870775
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:A2-ABY
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 761D Viscount
C/n (msn):189
Operator Titles:United Air Service - UAS
Location
City / Airport:Johannesburg - OR Tambo InternationalMap
Country:South Africa
Airport Codes:ICAO: FAOR   IATA: JNB   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:June 1980
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID: 870775
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 Withdrawn from use at Kinshasa March 1991 and broken up there. Seen here at then Jan Smuts International during her sub-lease to Air Botswana, carrying small United Air stickers for a brief lease. Photographer unknown

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