Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 24-Jul-22 (DeNoise AI).

The grey tank, bottom right, says 'Drinking Water'. By the look of the rubber hose, I think I'd give the tea/coffee a miss...

Named: "Leonardo da Vinci".

Leased from / operated by KLM, in KLM's full livery with additional "On Charter for Aer Lingus Irish International Airlines" stickers.

Delivered new to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in Oct-57 as PH-VIF, the aircraft was wet-leased to Aer Lingus in full KLM livery in mid 1965 and was sold to Aer Lingus as EI-AOE in Sep-65.

It was leased to Swiss Company SA de Transport Aerien as HB-ILP for the summer season from Mar/Nov-69. the aircraft was retired on it’s return and stored at Dublin. It was broken up there in Jul-72.

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Replacing an earlier scanned print with a better version 24-Mar-14.

Operating as a freighter.

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Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 31-Jan-15 + DeNoise AI 10-Oct-22.

This is quite a rare shot. The Starways titles were replaced by British Eagle titles in Mar-64. Starways titles were also applied to sister-ship G-AMOE

British Eagle took over 'Starways of Liverpool' services from Liverpool on 01-Jan-64. However, initially they were unable to operate using the British Eagle name or flight prefix because the licences were held under the Starways name. So for three months, until the route licences were transferred, two Viscounts (leased from Channel Airways) operated in the British Eagle livery with Starways titles.

This aircraft was delivered to BEA British European Airways as G-AMOC in Jun-53. It was due to be sold to VASP (Brazil) as PP-SRK but the deal fell through and it was sold to Channel Airways in Dec-63.

The aircraft was leased to British Eagle International Airlines later that month and sub-leased to Starways (British Eagle (Liverpool) Ltd) on 31-Dec-63. The sub-lease reverted to British Eagle (Liverpool) Ltd on 01-Apr-64. The aircraft was returned to Channell Airways in Apr-65.

It was leased to Bahamas Airways as VP-BCH in Dec-65, returning to Channel Airways as G-AMOC in Mar-66. It was sold to Cambrian Airways in Jun-66 and was leased to BKS Air Transport in Jan-67 for two weeks.

The aircraft was wet-leased to Air France in Apr-67 and returned to Cambrian in Mar-68. It was retired at Cardiff, Wales, UK in Oct-70 and was broken up there in Oct-71.

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Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 09-Feb-15.

This was the first time I'd seen the amazing new (in 1964!) Aer Lingus livery without all the 'green'. Look at them now... "what goes around, comes around"...

Some of the Aer Lingus Viscount 800's didn't last long, this being one of them. EI-AJI was their 1st V800 and was delivered new in May-57. It was retired at Dublin just over 12 years later in Oct-69 and was broken up there in May-72.

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Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 09-Mar-15.

Delivered new to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in Oct-57 as PH-VIF, it was wet-leased to Aer Lingus in full KLM livery in mid 1965 and was sold to Aer Lingus as EI-AOE in Sep-65. It was leased to Swiss Company SA de Transport Aerien as HB-ILP for the summer season from Mar/Nov-69. It was retired on it’s return and stored at Dublin. It was broken up there in Jul-72.

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