SU-AIC Vickers 739 Viscount
(c/n 85)
I've always thought
that this image looks like a model, but I do believe it is an actual
Vickers
photograph. Three series 700
Viscounts were purchased new by Misrair in 1955. By that
time the airline
had got to calling itself Egyptian Airlines, although the corporate
title was still
Misr Air Unfortunately
SU-AIC was in service less than a year when it became a victim of
the "Suez War" and was written off after
being destroyed on the ground by an RAF raid on
Almaza Airport
on 1 October 1956.