VH-HYC. Airbus A320-211. c/n 024.

First flown as F-WWDT - September 14, 1988

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-HYC - November 28, 1988

Accepted by Ansett - December 16, 1988

Departed Toulouse, France on delivery flight to Melbourne - December 16, 1988

Routing was - Athens-Dubai-Bangkok-Darwin-Melbourne - arriving December 19, 1988

Placed in storage in Melbourne as result of industrial dispute

Operated its first Ansett service - AN12 Melbourne-Sydney - February 7, 1989

Sold to Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) and leased back - July 2001

Operated its last commercial service - AN2002 Brisbane-Melbourne - September 13, 2001

Aircraft parked at Brisbane following suspension of all Ansett operations - September 13, 2001

Re-entered Ansett service - under administration - AN706 Melbourne-Sydney - September 30, 2001

Operated its final Ansett Australia service - AN287 Brisbane-Sydney - March 4, 2002

Ferried Sydney-Melbourne as AN4041 - and stored - March 4, 2002

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - July 25, 2002

Total hours - 40,109 / 21,872 cycles

Registered to Wells Fargo Bank Northwest NA Trustees - becoming N240SE - July 26, 2002

Departed Melbourne on delivery to Marshall Aerospace, UK - July 30, 2002

Routing was - Denpasar-Male-Cario- Cambridge - arriving July 31, 2002

Leased to Lao Airlines, Vientiane for 3 years - becoming VN-A123 - June 2003

Ferried Cambridge-Ankara - July 14 2003

Entered Lao Airlines service - Vientiane-Bangkok - July 17, 2003

Leased to Air Memphis, Egypt - becoming SU-PBE - May 2005

Current

VH-HYC. Ansett - in the 'Southern Cross' color scheme at Brisbane Airport.

(Image 0320-001. R. N. Smith Collection)

VH-HYC. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' color scheme at Sydney Airport, May 1991.

(Image 0320-090. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-HYC. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' color scheme at Brisbane Airport, June 1991.

(Image 0320-002. P. J. Gates Photograph)

VH-HYC. Ansett Australia - in the 'Starmark' color scheme at Brisbane Airport, February 2001.

(Image 0320-019. P. J. Gates Photograph)

VH-HYC. Ansett Australia - in the 'Starmark' color scheme at Melbourne Airport, April 2002.

(Image 0320-086. J. Goldfinch Photograph)

VN-A123. Lao Airlines - in their full color scheme, July 2003.

(Image 0320-105. R. N. Smith Collection)

VN-A123. Lao Airlines - in their full color scheme at Bangkok Airport, November 2003.

(Image 0320-025. R. N. Smith Collection)