Rolled off the Boeing production line at Renton as a 707-338C - August 25, 1967

First flown - September 27, 1967

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-EBW - October 11, 1967

Registered to Qantas Airways Ltd

Aircraft was named 'City of Armidale'

Arrived Sydney at 1630 at conclusion of delivery flight - October 13, 1967

Operated its first Qantas service - Sydney-London via Kangaroo Route - October 29, 1967

Underwent wing life modification work with Lufthansa in Hamburg - June - July 1969

Operated its final service - QF858 / QF885 Sydney-Christchurch-Sydney - May 11, 1975

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - May 12, 1975

Sold to British Caledonian Airways - becoming G-BDEA - May 13, 1975

Departed Sydney as QF071D on delivery to B.Cal - May 29, 1975

Aircraft was named 'County of Inverness' and later 'Loch Thom'

Withdrawn from service and stored at Gatwick - October 1982

Sold to Anglo Airlines Ltd - January 4, 1984

Leased to Transcorp for trans-Tasman freight services - March 16 to May 1987

Aircraft was named 'The Capt Keith Hooper'

Leased to Ansett Air Freight to cover maintenance on VH-RMX - January - February 1988

Leased to British Airways - October 28, 1988

Sold to Omega Air & ferried from Luton to Shannon - July 31, 1992

Cancelled from the U.K. Aircraft Register - August 26, 1992

Registered EL-AKH to Omega Air - August 26, 1992

Leased to Transbrasil - December 1, 1992

Sold to Grumman Aerospace Corp for J-STARS conversion - February 1994

Registered N6546L to Grumman Aerospace - February 1994

Cancelled from the U.S. Aircraft Register - October 1995

Handed over to 93rd ACW, U.S.A.F. - becoming 92-1097 - as an E-8C P-4 - 1998

Current

VH-EBW. Qantas Australia - in the 'V-Jet' livery at Jakarta Airport, June 1970.

(Image 4604-487. R. N. Smith Collection)

VH-EBW. Qantas Australia - in the 'V-Jet' livery at Mexico City Airport, November 1971.

(Image 4604-134. H. Tenby Collection)

G-BDEA. British Caledonian - in the original livery at Sydney Airport, May 1975.

(Image 4604-325. R. N. Smith Photograph)

G-BDEA. British Caledonian - in the original livery at London's Gatwick Airport, May 1978.

(Image 4604-457. R. N. Smith Collection)

G-BDEA. British Caledonian - in the original livery at Paris Orly Airport, October 1978.

(Image 4604-459. R. N. Smith Collection)

G-BDEA. British Caledonian - in the original livery at London's Heathrow Airport, January 1979.

(Image 4604-197. R. N. Smith Collection)

G-BDEA. British Caledonian Cargo - in the revised livery at London's Gatwick Airport, March 1981.

(Image 4604-456. R. N. Smith Collection)

G-BDEA. British Caledonian Cargo - in the revised livery at London's Gatwick Airport, December 1981.

(Image 4604-458. R. N. Smith Collection)

G-BDEA. Anglo Cargo - in the full livery at East Midlands Airport, February 1984.

(Image 4604-453. R. N. Smith Collection)

G-BDEA. Anglo Cargo - in the full livery at Sydney Airport, August 1984.

(Image 4604-518. R. N. Smith Photograph)

G-BDEA. Anglo Cargo - in the full livery at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport, January 1988.

(Image 4604-531. R. N. Smith Collection)

G-BDEA. Anglo Cargo - in the full livery at Basle - Mulhouse Airport, September 1988.

(Image 4604-455. R. N. Smith Collection)