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    Airframe Family: Vickers 630-870 Viscount
    Latest Model:798D Viscount
    Construction Number:233
    Last Civil Registration:N7471
    Latest Owner or Location:Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a 745D.

    1957

    Civil registration N7471 reserved but not taken up.
    Original ordered by Capital Airlines.

    1958

    Converted to a 798D.

    8 August 1958

    To Northeast Airlines with new c/r N6591C.

    9 September 1963

    Aircraft re-possessed by Vickers-Armstrong (aircraft) Ltd due to outstanding purchase payments.

    15 October 1963

    To Irving Trust Company.
    Purchased via an auction at Logan Airport, Boston.

    27 February 1964

    To Blaw-Knox Corporation.

    March 1964

    To Blaw-Knox Corporation with new c/r N820BK.

    June 1969

    To Kearney and Trecker Corporation with new c/r N1898T.

    30 January 1978

    To Kearney and Trecker Corporation with new c/r N98KT.

    29 August 1978

    To Kearney and Trecker Corporation with new c/r N555SL.

    1 February 1984

    To Monarch Aircraft Inc keeping c/r N555SL.

    7 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo at Chino

    10 November 1985


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA. as N555SL.

    August 1988


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA.

    November 1989

    To Tony and Clara Strauss Abad keeping c/r N555SL.

    Intention to operate the aircraft in the Phillipines did not materialise and the aircraft remained stored at Chino Airport CA.

    August 1992

    To Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, PA with new c/r N7471.

    August 1992

    To Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, PA.
    Donated by Tony Abad.
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    23 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Museum at Reading, Pennsylvania.

    4 June 2006


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: Displayed at the Mid Atlantic Air Museum
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Vickers Viscount.net
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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