Vicker’s Viscount was the first turboprop airliner to fly a regular airline service, the prototype registered G-AHRF, first flew on 16 July 1948. Vickers by Chief Designer Rex Pierson broke the piston engines monopoly on air transport.
Developing nation: United Kingdom.
Manufacturer/designer: Vickers Armstrongs Aircraft Ltd./Rex Pierson.
Production: 1950 – 1962.
Number built: 459.
Type aircraft: Medium-Range Turbo Airliner.
First flight: 16 July 1948 G-AHRF.
First delivery: 1950.
General characteristics
- Crew: Two pilots + cabin crew
- Capacity: 75 passengers
- Length: 26.11 m (85 ft 8 in)
- Wingspan: 28.56 (93 ft 8 in)
- Height: 8.15 m (26 ft 9 in)
- Wing area: 89 sq m (963 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 18,815 kg (41,479 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 32,786 kg (72,281 lb)
- Powerplant: 4x Rolls-Royce Dart RDa.7/1 Mk 525 turboprop, 2,100 shp (1,566 kW) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 566 km/h (352 mph)
- Range: 2,790 km (1,735 mi)
- Service ceiling: 7,620 m (25,000 ft)
- Wing loading: 368 kg/sq m (75 lb/sq ft)
Variants
- 700 – the first production version, 287 built
- 724 – 15 sold
- 745D – 40 sold
- 757 – 35 upgraded 1,600 hp (1,120 kW) Dart 510 engines
- 771D – improved 770D
- 785D –
- 800 – 67 built
- 810 – 84 built
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