| Aircraft | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 |
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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 Withdrawn from use at Kinshasa March 1991 and broken up there.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 This photo was added on 24 November 2025, and has since been viewed 42 times. |