Details: Viscount 700 - G-AWCV, British Midland (1/200 Scale)

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HL3009	Corgi	Viscount 700 - G-AWCV, British Midland (1/200 Scale)	£
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	HOBBY MASTER 1/200 AIRLINER SERIES HL3009 is this lovely diecast model of Vickers Viscount 700 G-AWCV in the livery of British Midland in 1968. The world’s first turbo-prop airliner was the British made Vickers Viscount. The first flight took place in 1948 with a more powerful engined Type 700 taking flight on August 3 1950. A stretched variant named Type 800 was 3 feet 10 inches longer with even more power and a new fuel system and flew on July 27 1956. It could carry 71 passengers so it soon was operating with about 70 airlines and 9 militaries around the world. Production ended in 1964 with 445 aircraft of all types produced. Originally G-AWCV was built as c/n 186 for BOAC Associated Companies. The Viscount 760D first flew on December 13, 1956 and was delivered to BOAC on January 1, 1957 as VR-HFI and had been fitted with slipper tanks. The aircraft was immediately leased to Hong Kong Airways and over time it carried various registrations when leased to Malayan Airways and Aden Airways. On April 7, 1968 the aircraft was sold to British Midland Airways with the registration G-AWCV. On November 28, 1969 G-AWCV made its final scheduled flight before being stored in April 1970 where it was stripped of its usable parts and finally scrapped in May 1970.

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