First flown as F-WWIB - January 3, 1991

Ferried Toulouse-Finkenwerder for storage

Ferried Finkenwerder-Toulouse as F-WWIB - February 1, 1991

Accepted by Ansett at Toulouse - March 6, 1991

Departed Toulouse, France on delivery flight to Melbourne - March 8, 1991

Arrived Melbourne at conclusion of delivery flight - March 14, 1991

Delivery route: Toulouse-Gatwick-Santa Maria-Bermuda-Phoenix-Hilo-Nadi-Melbourne

Flight crew: Capts F. Boomsma, T. Blair; LAMEs N. Dunstan, D. Paull, P. Runting;

Technical Engineer R. Farrar

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-HYK - March 14, 1991

Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd

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

Arrived in an all-white livery and painted in Melbourne before entering service

Ferried Melbourne-Sydney as AN9200 - March 29, 1991

Operated its first revenue service Sydney-Hamilton Island as AN2010 (Capt R. Lewis) - March 29, 1991

Operated first Ansett Australia service Brisbane-Darwin-Denpasar as AN112 - September 11, 1993

Flight crew: Capt I. Johnston

Operated its last commercial service AN59 Sydney-Melbourne as AN59 - June 30, 2001

Aircraft was in heavy maintenance at Sydney when Ansett ceased operations - September 13, 2001

Ferried Melbourne-Sydney as AN4408 - November 29, 2001

Re-entered Ansett service under administration Sydney-Brisbane as AN234 - November 29, 2001

Operated its final Ansett Australia revenue service Sydney-Brisbane as AN276 - March 4, 2002

Ferried Brisbane-Melbourne as AN4043 and placed in storage - March 4, 2002

Ansett Engineering quote the aircraft had flown 36,141 hours with 19,126 cycles - June 27, 2002

Test flown at Melbourne as AN4089 - September 11, 2002

Departed Melbourne on ferry flight to ASL Aircraft Services, Lemwerder, Germany - November 8, 2002

Arrived Lemwerder, Germany at conclusion of ferry flight - November 10, 2002

Ferry route: Melbourne-Perth-Cocos Island-Male-Cario-Bremen-Lemwerder

Flight crew: Capts B. Saunders, A. Ogilvie; Engineers P. Reed, B. Turnbull

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - November 20, 2002

Entered onto the German Aircraft Register as D-AKFY - February 26, 2003

Planned lease to Air Canada did not eventaute and aircraft remained in storage in basic Ansett livery

Entered onto the Tunisian Aircraft Register as TS-INH - August 2003

Registered to Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW)

Leased by Aibus to Nouvelair Tunisie, Monastir, Tunisia - September 13, 2003

Operated by Nouvelair for Afriqiyah Airways, Tripoli

Observed at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport in Afriqiyah livery - September 30, 2003

Advertised for sale / dry lease by Pembroke Capital Ltd - September 29, 2005

Returned to lessor at end of Nouvelair lease - January 2007

Leased to Ural Airlines - 2007

Entered onto the Bermuda Aircraft Register as VP-BQZ - March 2007

Current with Ural Airlines - November 2008

TS-INH. Afriqiyah - in the full livery with English & web titles, October 2003.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 0320-046.)

TS-INH. Afriqiyah - in the full livery with Arabic & web titles, August 2005.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 0320-071.)