First flown as F-WWIN - June 28, 1991

Ferried Toulouse-Hamburg-Toulose and stored - August 23, 1991

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-HYL - March 5, 1992

Accepted by Ansett - April 8, 1992

Departed Toulouse, France on delivery flight to Melbourne - April 8, 1992

Routing was - Instanbul-Dubai-Bngkok-Darwin-Brisbane - arriving April 11, 1992

Operated its first Ansett service - AN9 Brisbane-Sydney - April 30, 1992

Sold to Ansett Worldwide and leased back - June 28, 2001

Operated its last commercial service - AN148 Sydney-Brisbane - September 13, 2001

Re-entered Ansett service - under administration - AN275 Brisbane-Sydney - October 7, 2001

Operated its final Ansett Australia service - AN757 Sydney-Melbourne - November 11, 2001

Test flown at Melbourne in an all-white color scheme after D-check as AN4089 - April 14, 2002

Had flown 32,784 hours / 17,179 cycles - June 27, 2002

Test flown at Melbourne as AN4089 - August 8, 2002

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to Lufthansa Technik, Schonefeld, Germany - August 9, 2002

Routing was - Perth-Cocos Island-Male-Bahrain-Athens-Schonefeld - arriving August 11, 2002

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - September 13, 2002

Sold to Wilmington Trust Co, USA - becoming N229AN - September 17, 2002

Ferried Berlin-Fargo-Mojave for continued storage - January 10-11, 2003

Leased to Siberia Airlines - becoming EK32008 - via Ansett Worldwide - July 2003

Cancelled from the U.S. Aircraft Register - July 31, 2003

Sub-leased to Armavia, Yereva, Armenia

Current

VH-HYH. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' livery at Brisbane Airport, May 1992.

(Image 0320-096. P. J. Gates Photograph)

VH-HYL. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' livery at Perth Airport, December 1995.

(Image 0320-074. R. N. Smith Collection)

 

VH-HYL. Ansett Australia - in the 'Starmark' livery at Melbourne Airport, September 1997.

(Image 0320-028. J. Goldfinch Photograph)

EK-32008. Armavia - in the original blue livert at unknown airport, October 2003.

(Image 0320-058. R. N. Smith Collection)

EK-32008. Armavia - in the new livery at Paris Orly Airport, January 2005.

(Image 0320-059. R. N. Smith Collection)