Built for Ansett Airlines with three-man cockpit

Construction completed at Seattle - June 1983

First flown as N8289V - July 1, 1983

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-RMG - August 23, 1983

Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd

Arrived Melbourne at conclusion of delivery flight - August 26, 1983

Ferry route: Seattle-Honolulu-Nadi-Auckland-Melbourne

Ansett flight crew: Capt B. Porter; F/E G. Lynch.

Boeing flight crew: W. Barbour, K. Ekstrand, L. Fortin, V. Grosvenor, E. Hepner, R. Klopfer, R. Russo

First revenue service Melbourne-Perth as AN222 (Capt W. Oldcastle; F/E H. Cooper) - September 1, 1983

Operated the inaugural 767 service Brisbane-Darwin as AN62 - June 23, 1984

Used by Paramount Productions during filming of Mission Impossible episode - 1989

Operated the inaugural 767 service Melbourne-Canberra-Melbourne as AN94/97 - March 25, 1992

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

Returned to service - May 6, 2001

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

Operated its final service Perth-Sydney as AN216 (Capt I. Kilver; F/O P. Jenner) - September 14, 2001

Aircraft stored at Sydney when Ansett ceased all operations

Offered for immediate sale by Ansett Trading - October 2001

Ferried Sydney-Melbourne as AN4405 (Capt P. Terrill, F/O P. Collison) - January 29, 2002

Aircraft had flown 50,651 hours with 36,057 cycles as of January 29, 2002

Intended lease to KrasAir, Russia via management company Airfleet Resources did not eventuate

Stored at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport

Sold to Aeroturbine Inc, Miami, Florida - September 13, 2004

Test flown at Melbourne (Capts J. Snowball, M. Klapp) - December 5, 2002

Sold to Aeroturbine Inc, Miami - September 13, 2004

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - February 24, 2005

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as N862AT - February 25, 2005

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight - March 4, 2005

Ferry route: Melbourne-Honolulu-Opa Locka

Cancelled from U.S. Aircraft Register - May 16, 2006

Aircraft permanently retired at Opa Locka and parted out

VH-RMG. Ansett Australia - in the partial 'Union Jack' livery at Melbourne Airport, September 1990.

VH-RMG. Ansett Australia - in the 'Starmark' livery at Melbourne Airport, August 1995.

 

VH-RMG. Ansett Australia - in the 'Starmark' livery at Brisbane Airport, November 1997.

VH-RMG. Ansett Australia - in the 'Starmark' livery at Brisbane Airport, date unknown.

VH-RMG. Ansett Australia - in the all-white livery at Melbourne Airport, January 2004.