Thursday, April 21, 2011

Model Facts and Aircraft History: Northeast Viscount 700 N6598C


Northeast Viscount 700 N6598C by Aeroclassics



Product code : ACN6598C
Release year  : 2010
Available for purchase: HERE






This Northeast Viscount 700 is the colors just before Northeast Airlines turned all their planes into Yellowbirds. April 27, 1962 this aircraft was involved in a not-fatal crash in at KLGA. The plane was scheduled to go to KDCA but overshot the runway into the water at the Laguardia into the seaplane base. The model brings to 15 the Northeast Airline replicas. The airline operated in the northeast part of the US and eventually had their Yellowbird B727 flying to Florida from Boston and NY. In 1972 they were absorbed into Delta Airlines making the Delta network much stronger in the northeast part of the US. Later Western Airlines was merged in giving Delta a "national" rather than "regional" schedule. Northeast Airlines was an American airline based in Boston, Massachusetts. It began as Boston-Maine Airways, which was founded as a Pan Am contract carrier on July 20, 1931.




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