NORTHEAST VICKERS VISCOUNT 1958-1963

NORTHEAST  VICKERS VISCOUNT 1958-1963

Vickers Viscount series 745D at Philadelphia Airport

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NORTHEAST Airlines  started as Boston-Maine Airways  and  adopted the present name in November 1940. . The Airline was based in Boston and served the North WEastern communities up to Moncton with a fleet of DC3, CV240 . Gradulally , the airline expanded its network to include Washington and Florida.
The  Airline ordered 10 Vickers Viscount series 700 (see table below) to face the competition from Eastern and National Airlines . Eight of them came from the cancelled order of Capital Airlines and 2 were pure NE orders (cn391/392)
However, the financial strain on the company led to the return of the Vickers Viscount to Vickers in September 1963. Despite its acquisition from the Storrer Broadcasting, the financial woes and difficulties will haunt the company until its merger with Delta Airlines in August 1972 1972

This map,based on the 1960 timetable,  shows the cities served by the NE's Vickers Viscount  partcularly worthnoting "the air- bridge services between BOSTON-NEW YORK-WASHINGTON 

Vickers Visaount network map-1960

The April 1961 timetable shows an extension of the Vickers  Viscount services to Bangor , Portland and a night coach service from New York to Fort Lauderdale.

Vickers Viscount network map-1961

LIST of VICKERS VISCOUNT operated by NORTHEAST

 


Maps generated by the Great Circle Mapper - copyright © Karl L. Swartz.