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

Rolled off the Boeing production line at Renton - November 7, 1986

First flown as VH-CZJ - November 25, 1986

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-CZJ - December 16, 1986

Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd

Accepted by Ansett at Seattle - December 16, 1986

Departed Seattle on delivery flight to Australia as AN35 - December 16, 1986

Arrived Melbourne at conclusion of delivery flight - December 19, 1986

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

Flight crew: Capts K. Patton, D. Schere; LAME D. Stefanou

Operated first revenue service Melbourne-Sydney AN8 (Capt B. Kearney) - December 24, 1986

Operated final service Canberra-Sydney as AN200 - September 14, 2001

Flight crew: Capt A. Rutledge; F/O J. Rothwell

Ansett suspended all operations due to bankruptcy - September 13, 2001

Aircraft placed in storage at Sydney's Ansett Terminal

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

Aircraft had flown 43,260 hours

Ferried Sydney-Melbourne as AN4041 (Capts P. Addison, M. McLaurie) - April 24, 2002

Aircraft had flown 43,262 hours with 30,533 cycles - June 27, 2002

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

Departed Melbourne as AN40 on ferry flight to U.K. in full Ansett livery - April 17, 2003

Arrived Bournemouth at conclusion of delivery flight - April 20, 2003

Ferry route: Melbourne-Perth-Cocos Islands-Male-Djibouti-Athens-Bournemouth

Flight crew: Capts J. Hudson, R. Laidlaw; Engineers D. Mills, J. Anderson

Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register - April 29, 2003

Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-CELY - April 29, 2003

Registered to Dart Group Plc

Ferried Stansted-Tel Aviv in full Ansett livery for conversion to QC configuration - June 29, 2003

Cancelled from the U.K. Aircraft Register - July 8, 2003

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as N662DG - July 9, 2003

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

Entered onto the U.K. Aircraft Register as G-CELY - April 2004

Ferried Tel Aviv-Bournemouth on delivery to Jet 2 - April 24, 2004

Aircraft named 'Ireland'

Ferried Bournemouth-Belfast - April 25, 2004

Officially delivered to Jet 2 - April 28, 2004

Current with Jet 2

VH-CZJ. Ansett - in the 'Southern Cross' livery at Melbourne Airport, September 1989.

VH-CZJ. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' livery at Brisbane Airport, September 1990.

VH-CZJ. Ansett Australia - in the 'Starmark' livery at Brisbane Airport, June 1997.