This aircraft was built by the Boeing Aircraft Company, Everett, Washington - 1998

It was built to an order by Atlas Air, Westchester, NY

Powered by General Electric CF6-80C2B5F engines

First flown - October 05, 1998

Entered onto the United States Aircraft Register as N493MC - October 15, 1998

Registered to First Security Bank, USA

Leased to Atlas Air Inc as the registered operator - October 18, 1998

Delivered to Atlas Air - October 19, 1998

Registered to First Security Bank Utah - April 21, 2001

Observed at Frankfurt in the original colours minus titles - October 10, 2001

Observed at Lajes, Portugal in an all-white livery with blue tail minus all titles and logos - August 16, 2002

Wet-leased short term to Emirates Airline - September ?, 2002

Returned to Atlas Air - ?

It was observed at Amsterdam (Schiphol) in the standard Atlas Air livery - March 28, 2002

The aircraft was dry-leased to Cargolux - September 2004

It was observed at Dusseldorf with a small 'Cargolux' decal on the fuselage - October 02, 2005

Returned to Atlas Air at the end of the dry-lease - November 2005

Wet leased to Emirates Airline - November 2005

Returned to Atlas Air at the end of the wet lease - ? 2007

Wet-leased to Qantas Airways for services between the United States, New Zealand and Asia - January 22, 2012

The aircraft remains in the Atlas Air livery with a small sticker on the fuselage near the nose which reads

'Operated by Atlas Air Inc on behalf of Qantas Airways Ltd'

Atlas Air and Qantas Airways announced that they had extended their long-standing

ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance) relationship - February 27, 2014

Atlas Air purchased the aircraft off lease from First Security Bank Utah - November 14, 2016

Registered to Atlas Air Inc, Westchester, NY

Wet-leased to Qantas Airways