CF-TGP Vickers 724 Viscount
(c/n 53)
By the time Capital Airlines took delievery of their first
Vickers Viscount in 1955, travellers to
Canada
were quite used to flying the new prop-jet airliners, since Trans
Canada had put them
into service on the New York - Toronto route as early as Novermber of
1954. In fact, this was
one of
the reasons why Capital ordered the type. Above shows
CF-TGP in typical Viscount
pose
loading at La Guardia for the return trip across the border. TCA
eventually went on to
operate some fifty of these Vickers V700 series
aircraft. CF-TGP went to the Canadian Dept
of
Transport in 1964 as my lower shot, taken at LAX shows.