Built for Ansett Airlines with three-man cockpit

Construction completed at Seattle - May 1983

First flown as N8278V - May 4, 1983

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-RMD - June 6, 1983

Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd

Arrived Melbourne as AN767 at conclusion of delivery flight - June 10, 1983

Ferry route: Seattle-Honolulu-Port Moresby-Sydney

Flight crew: Capts M. Wheaton; F/E G. Lynch; Capt J. Rhind (Dept of Aviation)

Boeing flight crew: Capts R.W. Pollard, J. Adams; F/E C. Lackey, E. Hermanns, K. Vigh

On arrival it was utilised for crew training

Operated special service Melbourne-Sydney as AN6767 for Ansett staff - June 18, 1983

Operated first revenue service Melbourne-Sydney as AN8 (Capt B. Porter) - June 27, 1983

Operated first revenue service for Cook Islands International as KC202 - August 17, 1986

Route: Sydney-Rarotonga-Auckland return

Grounded by CASA at Melbourne Airport as result of non-compliance of airworthy directives - April 12, 2001

Returned to service Melbourne-Perth as AN63 - May 2, 2001

Intended sale and lease back from GECAS did not eventuate - May 2001

Operated final service Sydney-Melbourne as AN51 (Capt D.W. Lang; F/O P. Schwarz) - September 13, 2001

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

Offered for immediate sale by Ansett Trading - October 2001

Aircraft had flown 51,036 hours & 36,599 cycles as of October 3, 2001

Prepared for long-time storage as sale prospects not forthcoming - April 2002

Sold to Aeroturbine Inc - September 13, 2004

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - December 2, 2004

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as N861AT - December 2, 2004

Registered to Aeroturbine Inc

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to Opa Locka Airport - December 7, 2004

Broken up for parts at Opa Locka

Cancelled from U.S. Aircraft Register - May 17, 2006

VH-RMD. Ansett - in the 'Southern Cross' livery at Melbourne Airport, September 1984.

VH-RMD. Ansett - in the 'Southern Cross' livery at Sydney Airport, January 1985.

VH-RMD. Cook Islands International - in the Ansett 'Southern Cross' livery at Melbourne Airport.

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

VH-RMD. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' livery at Brisbane Airport, February 1993.