N.A.C.’s FIFTH VISCOUNT
£40,000 For Conversion The National Airways Corporation will spend between £38,000 and £40,000 on equipment to bring its newly-pur-chased fifth Viscount up to standard. The aircraft, purchased “at a very reasonable price” from L.O.T.—a Polish airline—through British European Airways, Ltd., is due at Christchurch on February 3. The N.A.C. crew making the delivery flight to New Zealand left England on Wednesday. On arrival at Christchurch airport the Viscount will be put into the N.A.C. engineering workshop where at least 20,000 man hours will be spent on bringing it to N.A.C. standard.
A new instrument panel will be installed and the cockpit rewired. Although most of the instrument equipment is of English manufacture, all markings are in Russian. Some items are not in the same cockpit positions as in N.A.C. Viscounts.
The corporation plans to have the aircraft ready for use by May 5.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31279, 27 January 1967, Page 10
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