Ordered new by Polaris Aircraft Leasing Corporation

Intended lease to China Airlines was not taken up

First flown as F-WWAV - January 30, 1991

Powered by General Electric CF6-80C2A5 engines

Leased to Compass Airlines by Polaris Aircraft Leasing

Ferried Toulouse-Hamburg (Lemwerder) in Compass livery for fit out - February 15, 1991

Ferried Hamburg-Toulouse - March 14, 1991

Aircraft damaged at Toulouse requiring major repairs and ferried to Hamburg for such - March 1991

Ferried Hamburg-Toulouse after repair - July 24, 1991

Accepted at Toulouse, France by Polaris Leasing - August 1991

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-YMB - August 19, 1991

Arrived Brisbane at conclusion of delivery flight - August 25, 1991

Operated first revenue service Brisbane-Sydney - August 26, 1991

Operared last revenue service as YM654 Adelaide-Brisbane - December 20, 1991

Grounded in Brisbane when Compass suspended operations due financial difficulties - December 20, 1991

Retured to Polaris Leasing in Brisbane - January 1, 1992

Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register - January 31, 1992

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as N166PL - January 31, 1992

Departed Brisbane on delivery flight to Singapore for maintenance - February 3, 1992

Observed stored at Hamburg (Lemwerder) as N166PL - May 19, 1992

Ferried Hambury-Paris (Orly) for storage - August 25, 1992

Repainted in China Northwest livery in preparation for lease - August 30, 1992

Leased to China Northwest Airlines

Ferried Paris (Charles de Gaulle) - Hamburg - October 8, 1992

Ferried Hamburg-Paris (Charles de Gaulle) - October 10, 1992

Entered onto Chinese Aircraft Register as B2310

Returned to Polaris Leasing at end of lease - February 2000

Sold to General Electric Capital Aviation Service Ltd (GECAS) - February 2000

Observed at Singapore in an all-white livery without titles for maintenance - February 22, 2000

Leased to Olympic Airways - March 2000

Entered onto Greek Aircraft Register as SX-BEM - March 2000

Aircraft named 'Creta'

Olympic Airways renamed Olympic Airlines - December 12, 2003

Current with Olympic Airlines

VH-YMB. Compass - in the full livery at Brisbane Airport, December 1991.

(P. J. Gates Photograph. 0310-026.)

VH-YMB. Compass - in the full livery at Brisbane Airport, December 1991.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 0310-067.)

VH-YMB. Compass - in the full livery at Melbourne Airport, December 1991.

(G. Bennett Collection. 0310-074.)

N166PL. Compass - in the full livery at Brisbane Airport, January 1992.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 0310-065.)

N166PL. China Northwest - in full livery, September 1992.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 0310-043.)

B-2310. China Northwest - in full livery at unknown airport, October 1992.

(G. Bennett Collection. 0310-126.)

B-2310. China Northwest - in full livery at Nagoya Airport, May 1994.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 0310-044.)