AIR RHODESIA

'Air Rhodesia' was the national airline of Rhodesia. It was originally formed as a subsidiary of Central African Airways in June 1964, but became an independent corporation on September 1, 1967. Air Rhodesia flew internal routes to Buffalo Range, Bulawayo, Fort Victoria, Kariba, and Victoria Falls. During the 1970s the airline had international flights to Johannesburg and Durban in South Africa, Beira, Vilanculos and Lourenço Marques in Mozambique, and Blantyre in Malawi.
Its mainstay aircraft were Vickers Viscount 700D (two of which were shot down by Strella portable surface-to-air missiles during the Bush War) and the Boeing 720-025, three of which were successfully purchased in spite of sanctions against the Rhodesian Government in April 1973. Following the renaming of the country, it became known as Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, and then reformed as Air Zimbabwe in 1980.
Aircraft:
Douglas C-47 - VP-YKP, VP-YNH
Vickers Viscount 748D - VP-YNB, VP-YNC, VP-YND
Vickers Viscount 754D - VP-YTE (2), VP-WAR
Vickers Viscount 756D - VP-YNI
Vickers Viscount 782D - VP-WAS, VP-WAT
Boeing 720-025A - VP-YNL, VP-YNM, VP-YNN

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★ Peter Bridger ''et al'', "Encyclopaedia Rhodesia" (College Press Pvt Ltd, Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1973), p. 20