Latest project - TAA Aircraft Restoration
VH-TVL, Vickers Viscount 756C
History
- Built at the Vickers-Armstrong Hurn factory
- First flown - February 22, 1957
- Entered onto the Australia Aircraft Register as VH-TVL, March 1, 1957
- Registered to Australian National Airlines Commission
- Arrives at Melbourne (Essendon) Airport at conclusion of delivery flight, March 1, 1957
- Known Crew: Captain R. Andrews; F/O McCallum; Navigator C.O White
- Aircraft was named 'George Evans'
- Operated first revenue service - March 21, 1957
- Set a speed record between Adelaide - Perth of 4 hours 25 minutes (Captain L.W. Manning) - July 23, 1957
- Set a speed record between Longreach - Brisbane of 112 Minutes (Captain D. Lawrence) - September 1, 1957
- Withdrawn from T.A.A. service and placed in storage December 30, 1968
- Returned to service with T.A.A. - February 27, 1969
- Operated final revenue service - August 19, 1969
- Placed in storage in Brisbane (Eagle Farm) Airport
- Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - May 24 1971
- Aircraft had flown 30,275 hours with 21,474 cycles
- Sold to Les Arthur of the Toowoomba Aviation Museum - November 1971
- Dismantled and trucked by low-loader to Toowoomba - November 13 1971
- Sold to Jensens Metals, Toowoomba 1978
- Sold to J. Aspromourgus and transported to Wildmans Timber Yard - April 1989
- Transported by low loader to Possum Park - 25 March, 2013