VH-EBH. Boeing 707-138B. c/n 18067-201.


Rolled off the Boeing production line at Renton as a 707-138B - March 10, 1961

First flown as N93134 - April 13, 1961

Accepted by Qantas at Seattle - July 29, 1961

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-EBH - July 30, 1961

Registered to Qantas Empire Airways Ltd

Departed Seattle on positioning flight to San Francisco (Capt A.A.E. Yates) - August 5, 1961

Operated its first commercial service San Francisco-Sydney - August 5, 1961

Established record for Honolulu-Sydney sector (Capt E. Robinson) - 9 hours 40 minutes

Established record for Seattle-Sydney sector - 14 hours 36 minutes

Arrived Sydney at conclusion of delivery flight - August 6, 1961

Delivery route: Seattle-San Francisco-Honolulu-Sydney

Aircraft was named 'City of Darwin'

Delivered in an interim livery and repainted with the new 'V-Jet' tail livery after its arrival in Sydney

Operated the inaugural 707-138B service Sydney-Vancouver - September 1, 1961

Operated its final Qantas service Sydney-Christchurch-Sydney - June 30, 1968

Withdrawn from use and stored at Sydney Airport

Sold to British West Indian Airways Ltd (B.W.I.A.), Trinidad - August 21, 1969

Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register - September 18, 1969

Entered onto Trinidad & Tobago Aircraft Register as 9Y-TDC - September 1969

Departed Sydney on delivery flight to B.W.I.A. - September 28, 1969

Sustained serious damage when nosewheel failed to lower for landing at Toronto, Canada - March 23, 1973

Advertised for sale by B.W.I.A. - April 1977

Withdrawn from use and stored at Port of Spain, Trinidad - November 18, 1977

Sold to Euro Air Financing - March 18, 1978

Entered onto Cayman Islands Aircraft Register as VR-CAN - March 1978

Delivered to Ohio Air Center for VIP conversion and resale

Registered to Universal Leasing - 1978

Advertised for sale by Omni Aircraft Trading - August 1979

Leased to Air Guinee and flown with full titles for one week - September 1979

Returned to Euro Air Financing at Miami - September 28, 1979

Observed at Stansted Airport with Hughes International stickers - May 4, 1980

Stored at Stansted - August, 1980

Observed in storage at Marana - September 23, 1981

Observed in storage at Marana - July 28, 1986

Observed in storage at Marana - cocooned & complete - February 21, 1992

Observed at Marana with wings & tail removed - March 5, 2005

Nose section observed being transported for incorporation into a simulator - January 21, 2008


VH-EBH. Qantas Australia's Overseas Airline - on the production line at Seattle, 1961.

(Qantas Heritage Collection. 4604-675.)

VH-EBH. Qantas Australia's Overseas Airline - final livery at Vancouver Airport, December 1967.

(G. Bennett Collection. 4604-535.)

9Y-TDC. BWIA International - in the original livery at unknown airport, August 1970.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 4604-189.)

9Y-TDC. BWIA International - in the original livery with revised titles, November 1971.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 4604-239.)

9Y-TDC. BWIA International - in the original livery revised titles & hushkitting, December 1976.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 4604-240.)

VR-CAN. Euro Air Financing - in the original livery at unknown airport, April 1979.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 4604-237.)

VR-CAN. Air Guinee - in Euro Air Financing livery at unknown airport, September 1979.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 4604-236.)

VR-CAN. Euro Air Financing - in modified livery without titles at Marana, January 1982.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 4604-241.)