OY-DLA Vickers 628 Viking 1B
(c/n 195)
In 1947 to modernize their fleet and to
augment the DC-3s, a fleet of five Vikings was purchased
new from
Vickers. This shot of the first one was taken by F/L D.A.S.
Mackay while the machine
was
in the U.K. prior to delivery. Below is what used to be referred
to as an 'artists impression'
of the
same aircraft which, if nothing else, provides a guide to the livery
employed by Danish Air
Lines before
it was absorbed into the SAS consortium. In the event the
Vikings were found to
be
uneconomical to operate and they were sold after a scant two years'
operation, mainly to Misr
in Egypt. This
one became SU-AGO.