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Vickers 739A Viscount 'City of Glasgow'. With a BEA Vickers Vanguard in the background. At LHR EGLL in 1965

#Vickers #Viscount #Vanguard #airliner #airlines #passenger aircraft #civil aircraft #British Eagle #BEA #Heathrow

NAMC YS-11A-200. Turboprop airliner built in Japan by the Nihon Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation. First flew in 1962. At Osaka. In 1975

#NAMC #Airliner #airline #passenger aircraft #civil aircraft #All Nippon Airways #Osaka

Vickers Super VC10 Srs1151 G-ASGE. With a BEA Trident in the background. At Ringway EGCC in 1966

#Vickers #VC-10 #airliner #airline #passenger aircraft #civil aircraft #BOAC #Ringway

SAAB B-17. 2-seat, reconnaissance, light bomber, dive bomber aircraft. It was the first aircraft built by SAAB. First flew in 1940

#SAAB #dive bomber #light bomber #reconaissance aircraft #military aircraft

Vickers 815 Viscount. This particular aircraft suffered a fatal crash in 1969. Photographed with a departing BAC 111. At Ringway in 1968

#Vickers #Viscount #BAC-111 #passenger aircraft #airliner #airline #Britiah Midland #Aer Lingus #civil aircraft #Ringway

Lockheed L-188A Electra. Designed as an airliner that typically carried crew of three and 66 to 80 passengers in a mixed-class arrangement. First flew in 1957. This particular aircraft was destroyed in hanger fire in 2000. At BC in 1995

#Lockheed #Electra #airliner #passenger aircraft #civil aircraft

Fournier RF-5B Sperber. French semi-aerobatic, 2-Seat, motorglider. First flew in 1968. At Kenley. In 1976

#Fournier #light aircraft #general aviation #Glider

Vickers Super VC10 Srs1151 G-ASGC. Now preserved at Duxford. At LHR in 1969

#Vickers #VC-10 #Airliner #Airline #passenger aircraft #civil aircraft #Heathrow #BOAC

Saunders-Roe SR.A.1. Experimental jet flying boat fighter. It was the first jet-propelled water-based aircraft in the world. First flew in 1947 and only 3 were built.

#Saunders-Roe #fighter aircraft #military aircraft

Tupolev ANT-9. Soviet airliner that first flew in 1929 and could carry 9 passengers. At Prague in 1938

#Tupolev #airline #airliner #passenger aircraft #civil aircraft #Prague

North American B-25J Mitchell N325N w Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress N83525. Both in a state of disrepair. At Paris TXM 39TA. 1978

#North American #B-25 #Mitchell #Boeing #B-17 #Flying Fortress #bomber aircraft #military aircraft #ww2

Lockheed Model 8 Sirius 'Tingmissartoq' NR 211. With the Lindbergs. They flew this aircraft on their flight to the Orient via the Great Circle Route, starting from North Haven, Maine (July 1931) and ending in Nanjing, China (September 1931).

#Lockheed #Sirius #Charles Lindberg #Anne Morrow