Aircraft Photo of VP-YNC | Vickers 748D Viscount | Air Rhodesia | AirHistory.net #878234
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:VP-YNC
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers Viscount
Aircraft Version:Vickers 748D Viscount
C/n (msn):100
Operator Titles:Air Rhodesia
Aircraft Name:Mazoe
Location
City / Airport:Johannesburg - OR Tambo InternationalMap
Country:South Africa
Airport Codes:ICAO: FAOR   IATA: JNB   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:July 1981
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID: 878234
Photo Comment

First flown 24 May 1956 and delivered to Central African Airways 8 June. 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 Rhodesia 1 January 1968, 1 January 1968 to s VP-YKB, to Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia June 1979, name changed to Air Zimbabwe February 1980. Re-registered Z-YNC October 1983. Seen here at then Jan Smuts International in the original dark blue Air Rhodesia livery. The name Mazoe is carried on the port side under the cockpit window. Photographer unknown

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