VH-RMH
Vickers 832
Viscount
(c/n 415)
Above is a shot from the Peter Gates collection of
VH-RMH being serviced for departure, while
the photo immediately
below, from Greg Banfield, illustrates the Viscount at Mascot in April
1965
in a slightly revised
livery. This
V.832 was delivered in 1959, and served the airline
until 1970
when it was sold to Far
East
Air Transport (FAT) of Taiwan as B-2023. After a couple of leases
in the early 1970s to
Malaysia and Vietnam, it was leased in 1976 to Indonesian carrier
Mandala
Airlines as
PK-RVN. It is
seen in this livery in Peter's exotic shot
at the foot of the page. The air-
craft was written off
whilst
still on lease to Mandala following a crash at Semarang in 1981.