Dial 999

TV Series (1958-1959)

Starring:
Robert Beatty (Detective Inspector Michael MaGuire)
Duncan Lamont (Detective Inspector Winter)
John Witty (Detective Sargeant West)

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Vickers V.806 Viscount & Douglas C-47A-20-DK Skytrain

Ep. 4 Escape
At London Heathrow Airport (LHR).

Next, a chase scene in the middle of the maintenance workshops at London Heathrow Airport (LHR), alternating between McGuire and his fugitive, and thus showing the two types of aircraft in turn.
For convenience, the views are grouped by aircraft and not in strictly chronological order.
Reg. G-AOYG Vickers V.806 Viscount c/n 256 of British European Airways Corporation (BEA). Built for this company and maiden flight on Friday, 4 October 1957. Sold in September 1970 to Cambrian Airways. Five other operators used her always under the same registration till summer of 1992 when her Certificate of Airworthiness expired (then stored). January 1994 : sold and broken up for metal recovery.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Reg. G-AKJH built as a Douglas C-47A-20-DK Skytrain c/n 13164 s/n 42-93271 for the USAAC before transfered to RAF India in 1944 and eventually sold to Indian Government (30 January 1947). Start of a new turbulent life ending (?) in 1977 when delivered to Zimbabwe Air Force. Amidst all these changes, BEA enjoyed a decade of stability (mostly during the 1950s) with this aircraft actually named "Pioneer Class R.M.A. EDWARD HILLMAN".

Another Douglas DC-3 (or ex-C-47 ?) of British European Airways.

Ep. 11 The Great Gold Robbery
Three Vickers Viscounts (illegible registration).
(right) Hidden by the Viscount taxiing, a three-tail Airspeed Ambassador in front of the BOAC hangar.London Heathrow Airport (LHR).

Douglas DC-6B

Ep. 19 24 Hours a Day
Reg. N5120V Douglas DC-6B c/n 44120/469 Clipper Mermaid of PAA-Pan American World Airways.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

De Havilland DH-89 Dragon Rapide

Ep. 23 Hunter, Hunted

De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk

Ep. 23 Hunter, Hunted
Reg. G-AOSN De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk 22 c/n C1/0026. Ex-RAF Chipmunk T.10 WB574: delivered to RAF in 1950. Sold on the civil market on summer 1956. Written off on 19 February 1977 when crashed on take off from Denham (no fatalities).

Vickers V.806 Viscount

Ep. 23 Hunter, Hunted

Avro 688 Tudor

Ep. 24 Extradition
Reg. G-AGPF is the first prototype of the Avro Tudor (c/n 1234).

Lockheed C-69-5-LO (L-049) Constellation

Ep. 38 Deadly Blackmail
Reg. G-AHEN was Lockheed C-69-5-LO Constellation c/n 1980; never used by the USAAC and so registered N90606. Now a L-049, BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation bought her in April 1946 and give her the name : Baltimore. In 1948, two weeks before the arrival of the airline’s sixth L-049, the 1,000th crossing of the Atlantic by a BOAC Constellation was performed by G-AHEN over April 4-5. The same G-AHEN was flying the final passenger Constellation service on the Atlantic routes on first April 1950.
Following a hard landing accident and extensive damage at Filton, Bristol, UK, she was transported by ship to America and repaired by Los Angeles Air Service. On the second roll-out, sold to CHA California Hawaiian with new c/r N74192 (April 1952). Then to El Al Israel Airlines with new c/r 4X-AKD (1954-1961). Back on the UK Air Registry (again as G-AHEN) for her last three operational years (Euravia livery) before being broken up at Luton in April 1965.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).