[🇵🇰] Pakistani Aviation History

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Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1000822555163910&set=a.786787513234083

Brand new Vickers Viscount 815 of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) performing a test flight in United Kingdom before delivery to the airline in January 1959.

Viscount was the first turboprop airliner to join PIA fleet and passengers loved aircraft's large cabin windows.

 

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1964 photo of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Sikorsky S-61N helicopter at Dacca Airport in East Pakistan.

For short-haul operations in East Pakistan's delta region, based on Dacca, PIA set up a network of scheduled helicopter routes using three brand new amphibious twin-turbine Sikorsky S-61N helicopters.