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Aircraft
  Vulcan Bomber
  Meteor
  Piston Provost
  Wessex Helicopter
  Viscount
  Leopard
  Canberra
  Lightning
  Hunter
  Harvard
  Vanguard
  Jaguar
  Vampire
 Engines
  Rolls-Royce Griffon
  Rolls-Royce Nene
  Rolls-Royce Viper
  Garrette APU
 Other Exhibits
  Daimler Fleetline
  Flight Simulator
  Flight Refuelling Probe
  Zeppelin Propeller
  Rigid Targets
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Vickers Viscount

G-OPAS

First Flight G-AOYN06/03/58
Delivered to BEA26/03/58
Cambrian Airways brought aircraft30/12/71
Merged with BEA01/04/74
Withdrawn from use, stored at Cardiff Rhoose Airport/04/80
British Air Ferries brought aircraft16/02/81
Oasis Oil Company leased it/05/81
Returned to British Air Ferries12/07/81
Occidental Oil Company leased it/12/81
Returned to British Air Ferries/05/82
Transferred to Panavia Air Cargo/01/84
Leased back to British Air Ferries/01/84
British World Airlines/04/93
Re-registered with B.W.A to G-OPAS05/10/94
Withdrawn from use and stored Southend Airport/06/96
Broken up, forward fuselage to Duxford/02/97
To Bournemouth Aviation Museum2007
(Photo by Paul Rushton)
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