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The Vickers Viscount is the most successful British airliner ever constructed, with over 400 built. The aircraft pictured was originally built for TM, but instead it operated in Iran before its procurement by the RMF. (Defence PR)
Aircraft of the ADF, A6 – Vickers Viscount
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A6 – Vickers Viscount
The route by which two Vickers Viscount airliners, originally intended for TransAustralia Airlines (TAA), ended up in RAAF service was quite an unusual one.
The prototype Vickers Viscount, registered G-AHRF, first flew on July 16 1948 and was the first propeller turbine aircraft to enter airline service. TAA ordered six of the Viscount 700 series in 1952 and by 1958, Viscounts had captured 27 out of the 28 Australian airline speed records. The stretched Viscount 800 series became available in 1959 with TAA receiving two of these,known as V816 models. A further two,VH-TVR (Vickers constructor’s number 435) and VH-TVS (c/n 436), were completed for TAA but were not delivered. Instead, 435 was delivered to the Union Carbide Corporation in USA as N40N in 1960,and 436 went to the Iranian Government as EP-MRS in 1961.
By 1964 the hard pressed Convair Metropolises and Douglas Dakotas of 34 Squadron needed supplementing, and so these two Viscounts were obtained. Number 435, now registered N140N, became A6-435 with the RAAF and 436, then operated by Iranian Airlines,became A6-436.
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