Ordered new by Ansett with finance provided via Credit Lyonnais Australia Ltd

Rolled off the Boeing production line at Renton - September 18, 1986

First flown as VH-CZG - October 6, 1986

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-CZG - November 20, 1986

Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd

Accepted by Ansett at Seattle - November 20, 1986

Departed Seattle on delivery flight to Australia as AN34 - November 20, 1986

Arrived Melbourne at conclusion of delivery flight - November 23, 1986

Delivery route: Seattle-Hilo (overnight)-Nadi (overnight) - Melbourne

Flight crew: Capts K. Wallace, P. Feeney; LAME C. Struber

Operated first revenue service Melbourne-Hobart as AN67 (Capt N. McFarland) - November 28, 1986

Operated final revenue service Adelaide-Melbourne as AN182 - September 13, 2001

Ansett suspended operations due to bankruptcy - September 13, 2001

Aircraft placed in storage at Melbourne's Ansett Terminal

Advertised for immediate sale by Aviation Capital Group - December 20, 2001

Aircraft had flown 42,957 hours with 30,132 cycles

Sold to the Dart Group Plc for operation by Channel Express (Air Services) UK

Aircraft to be converted to freight configuration by Israel Aircraft Industries / Bedek Aviation Group

Departed Melbourne as AN40 on ferry flight to Israel in full Ansett livery - June 23, 2002

Arrived Tel Aviv at conclusion of delivery flight - June 25, 2002

Ferry route: Melbourne-Perth-Cocos Islands-Male-Bahrain-Cairo-Tel Aviv

Flight crew: Capts P. Doery, D. McCutcheon; Engineers W. Bird, H. Baxi

Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register - July 1, 2002

Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-CELW - July 4, 2002

Registered to Dart Group Plc

Placed in storage at Tel Aviv until freighter conversion required by Channel Express

Cancelled from U.K. Aircraft Register - August 15, 2002

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as N659DG - August 16, 2002

Registered on a tempory certificate to Wilmington Trust Co. Trustee, Wilmington, U.S.A.

Sold to Dart Group - October 2, 2003

Cancelled from the U.S. Aircraft Register - October 3, 2003

Entered onto the U.K. Aircraft Register as G-CELW - October 3, 2003

Ferried Tel Aviv-Stansted on delivery to Channel Express - December 15, 2003

Operated by Channel Express as a freighter

Channel Express merged with Jet 2 - January 3, 2006

Current with Jet 2

VH-CZG. Ansett - in the 'Southern Cross' livery at Brisbane Airport, May 1988.

G-CELW. Channel Express - in the full livery at Bournemouth Airport, April 2005.