Vickers 952F Vanguard

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The Vickers Vanguard was a British short/medium-range turboprop airliner introduced in 1959 by Vickers-Armstrong’s, a development of their successful Viscount design with considerably more internal room.

The Vanguard was introduced just before the first of the large jet-powered airliners, and was largely ignored by the market.

Only 44 were built, ordered by Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) & British European Airways(BEA).

After only about 10 years service TCA experimentally converted one of theirs to a freighter configuration, calling it the Cargoliner.

This was considered successful, and in the early 1970's most were converted to freighters, those from BEA becoming the Merchantman.

These freighters remained in service for many years, with the last one (G-APEP) only retiring in 1996.

General characteristics

• Crew: 2-3
• Capacity: 139 passengers
• Length: 122 ft 10 in (37.50 m)
• Wingspan: 118 ft 7 in (36.10 m)
• Height: 34 ft 11 in (10.60 m)
• Wing area: 1,527 ft² (142 m²)
• Empty weight: 82,500 lb (37,421 kg)
• Loaded weight: 141,000 lb (63,977 kg)
• Powerplant: 4 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RTy.11 Mk 512 turboprop, 5,545 hp (4,700 shp, 4,135 kW) each

Performance

• Maximum speed: 425 mph (684 km/h)
• Range: 1,830 mi (2,945 km)
• Service ceiling: 30,000 ft [15] (9,145 m)
• Wing loading: 92 lb/ft² (450 kg/m²)
• Power/mass: 0.16 hp/lb (0.26 kW/kg)