Aircraft Photo of VP-YNA | Vickers 748D Viscount | Central African Airways - CAA | AirHistory.net #877612
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:VP-YNA
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 748D Viscount
C/n (msn):98
Operator Titles:Central African Airways - CAA / Air Rhodesia
Aircraft Name:RMA Malvern
Location
City / Airport:Harare - Robert Gabriel Mugabe International / ManyameMap
Country:Zimbabwe
Airport Codes:ICAO: FVHA   IATA: HRE   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:1966
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID: 877612
Photo Comment

First flown 28 March 1956 and delivered to Central African Airways 24 April. 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-YDK 1 January 1968, June 1979 to Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia as VP-YNA, name changed to Air Zimbabwe February 1980. Reregistered Z-YNA October 1983. Retired 31 May 1985 and displayed at the National Aviation Museum, Gweru. Here seen at Salisbury in CAA livery with Air Rhodesia stencils applied. Photographer unknown

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