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Cunard Eagle & British Eagle

1948 to 1968


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Vickers Viscount Type 806
c/n 258
Entered Service
First flew 2nd December 1957
This was the first aircraft that Eagle Airways Ltd had purchased new from the manufacturer and was the first Viscount to join the company on the 19th December 1957.
Left Service
Sold to Maritime Central Airways as CF-MCJ in June 1959
Named
"Enterprise"
History
It was transferred to Eagle Airways (Bermuda) as VR-BAX on the 19th April 1958.
Maritime Central Airways sold it to Air Lingus as EI-AMA on the 12th April 1962.
It was withdrawn from use in Dublin, Ireland in January 1970 and broken up in May 1972.
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