Vickers Viscount
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1948 airliner family by Vickers-Armstrongs
Key facts
- Type
- Turboprop airliner
- National origin
- United Kingdom
- Manufacturer
- Vickers-Armstrongs
- Status
- Retired
- Primary users
- British European Airways Capital Airlines , Trans-Canada Air Lines , Air Canada
- Manufactured
- 1948–1963
- Introduction date
- 18 April 1953 with British European Airways
- First flight
- 16 July 1948
- Retired
- January 2009
- Developed into
- Vickers Vanguard
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Operator
- BWIA West Indies Airways
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Developer
- Vickers-Armstrongs
- Manufacturer
- Vickers
- Image
- Vickers 804 Viscount, Pearl Air AN1811351.jpg
- Length
- 26.11
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- service entry
- 1953-04-18
- maximum capacity
- 75
- total produced
- 445
- Commons category
- Vickers Viscount
- Commons gallery
- Vickers Viscount
- military designation
- VC-90
- maximum operating altitude
- 7620
- first flight
- 1948-07-16
- service retirement
- 2009-01-00
- wing configuration
- low wing
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Encyclopedic overview
The Vickers Viscount is a retired British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee, it entered service in 1953 and was the first turboprop-powered airliner.
The Viscount was well received by the public for its cabin conditions, which included pressurisation, reductions in vibration and noise, and panoramic windows. It became one of the most successful and profitable of the first postwar transport aircraft; 445 Viscounts were built for a range of international customers, including in North America.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vickers Viscount” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.