Fleet History - BEA/British Airways Vickers Viscount (1953-82)

Welcome to my fleet histories series. In it I review year-by-year aircraft fleets of an airline.
In this video I show British European Airways' (BEA) and eventually British Airways' Vickers Viscount history from when it first flew regular passenger services in 1953 (there were some unscheduled flights in 1950) until it was finally retired in 1982.
This series is inspired by Elmauriplatense. You can check out his channel here: / elmauriplatense
Music: "Foundation" - Vibe Tracks
All images are sourced from Google Images and Planespotters.net.
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[@jerryconnors8663]

Loved those Viscounts!! During my early days of planespotting in the mid 50s watched many Trans Canada (now Air Canada) V700s at Idlewild (now JFK). The sounds of those whining Rolls Royce Darts were the most distinctive identifier of the aircraft.

[@simongray8019]

Had the pleasure of working on a lot of these lovely ladies in my first cabin crew position with British Air Ferries. A superb aircraft that was a real pleasure to work on. Four years of very happy memories....

[@michaelsmith697]

I love the Viscount and the red square BEA livery!
The best aircraft ever - my fav!!!!

[@michaelsmith697]

Great Viscount slide show! I loved the BEA black and red square livery with the red wings. Beautiful! The Viscount will always be my favourite plane.
I don’t care much for the music

[@leesmith8366]

I was born at the beginning of the 60s lived in fulham west london started spotting at early age remember most of these as we lived under flight path for heathrow

[@anthonymclauchlan]

I flew the Viscount for BEA as First Officer 1963-69 then as Captain &Training Captain 1972-75 over 4000 hours flying on a splendid airplane. When flying a B747F for SIA from Frankfurt to JFK we taxied past the Lufthansa engineering base where the last Viscount sat desolate, my young Singaporean F/O had no idea of the identity, so I told him, saying he was looking at aviation history.

[@arisolight]

I like the Vickers Viscount's tailfin. It looks as if it leans inward. :-D

[@Ibirdball]

To me it looks like the bump that sticks up from heads of Tom and Jerry 😂

[@simonwolfe529]

thanks for sharing this IBB, aswome shots, hate to be picky, shame no BMA ones there mind...and that high pitched sound of the darts.

[@Ibirdball]

Ik I heard an F-27 go over once, but they don't have that same R-R Dart whine as the Viscount.

[@Cladcreeper]

I have a classic old model of this plane in its BEA livery.

[@Ibirdball]

I have one in BA Negus & Negus. Want to get a BEA Red Square one though, as I have many N&N-liveried aircraft models already (two VC10s, a Trident and 737).

[@Cladcreeper]

Yeah that's what I have. The BEA Red Square one. I only got it today actually.

[@Cladcreeper]

Adding onto that, I got a KLM bag which contained a KLM ruler, some KLM sweets, a mini plane and some more pencils and all that.

[@Ibirdball]

@@Cladcreeper Sounds like the KLM bag I got from the last F70 flight.

[@Cladcreeper]

@@Ibirdball No way! So I got a bag from the F70! Cool!

[@CallMe4L]

Ok

[@augusth2212]

Please Make BOAC Comet Fleet History 🙏

[@Ibirdball]

I can't, sorry, as they had it from 1952-54 and 1958-66.