Third of eight Airbus A320 aircraft ordered new by Ansett

First flown as F-WWDT - September 14, 1988

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

Registered to Ansett Transport Industriaes (Operations) Pty Ltd

Accepted by Ansett at Toulouse - December 16, 1988

Aircraft fitted 24 First Class and 108 Economy Class seats but variable

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

Arrived Melbourne at conclusion of delivery flight - December 19, 1988

Delivery route: Athens-Dubai-Bangkok-Darwin-Melbourne

Flight crew: Capts K. Patton, R. Flanigan, B. Lake; Engineers M. Nearchou, D. Naylor

Placed in storage in Melbourne as result of industrial dispute

Operated first revenue service Melbourne-Sydney as AN12 (Capt P. Johnson) - February 7, 1989

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

Ansett suspended operations due to bankruptcy - September 13, 2001

Operated last revenue service Brisbane-Melbourne as AN2002 - September 14, 2001

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

Operated final revenue service Brisbane-Sydney as AN287 - March 4, 2002

Ferried Sydney-Melbourne as AN4041 for storage - March 4, 2002

Advertised for immediate sale by the Ansett Administrators

Ansett Engineering quote the aircraft had flown 40,109 hours with 21,872 cycles - June 27, 2002

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - July 25, 2002

Entered onto the U.S. Aircraft Register with tempory certificate as N240SE - July 26, 2002

Registered to Wells Fargo Bank Northwest NA Trustees, Salt Lake City, Utah

Departed Melbourne on delivery to Marshall Aerospace, UK in full Ansett livery - July 30, 2002

Arrirved Cambridge, U.K. at conclusion of ferry flight - July 31, 2002

Ferry route: Melbourne-Denpasar-Male-Cario- Cambridge

Placed in open storage at Cambridge

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

Entered onto the Vietnamese Aircraft Register as VN-A123 - July 4, 2003

Ferried Cambridge-Ankara as HVN1230 on delivery to Lao Airlines - July 14 2003

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

Returned to lessor at end of lease

Leased to Air Memphis, Egypt - March 2005

Entered onto the Egyptian Aircraft Register as SU-PBE - April 2005

Delivered to Air Memphis at Cario, Egypt - April 8, 2005

Returned to A.W.A.S. at end of lease - December 2006

Ferried Cairo-Glasgow-Halifax-St. Louis-Goodyear - December 4, 2006

Parted out and scrapped at Goodyear, Arizona

VH-HYC. Ansett - in the 'Southern Cross' livery at Brisbane Airport, date unknown.

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

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

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

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

VN-A123. Lao Airlines - in the full livery at Cambridge Airport, July 2003.

VN-A123. Lao Airlines - in the full livery at Bangkok Airport, November 2003.