VH-RMH. Boeing 767-277. c/n 22696-100.


Built for Ansett Airlines with three-man cockpit

Construction completed at Seattle - August 1984

First flown as N1791B - August 28, 1984

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-RMH - September 20, 1984

Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd

Arrived Melbourne at conclusion of delivery flight - September 24, 1984

Ferry route: Seattle-Honolulu-Nadi

Ansett flight crew: Capts B. Porter, H Theunissen; F/E G. Lynch; Engineers B. Dyer, R. Elliott,

S. Donald, W. O'Meara. Boeing flight crew: P. Bennett; Consultant J. Adams

First revenue service was AN26 Melbourne-Sydney (Capt V. Collins; F/E R. Dorling) - September 28, 1984

Operated inaugural 767 service Sydney-Hamilton Is-Sydney (Capts B. Porter, G. Stewart; F/E G. Lynch) -

December 8, 1984

Operated world's final Boeing 767 service crewed by a Flight Engineer as AN75 Brisbane-Melbourne

(Capt R. Wood; F/O J. Farley; F/Es K. Dalby, R. Pollock) - April 7, 1998

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

Returned to service - May 4, 2001

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

Operated its final revenue service as AN218 Perth-Melbourne (Capt M. Hickman; F/O P. Mulvaney) -

September 14, 2001

Aircraft stored at Melbourne when Ansett ceased all operations

Offered for immediate sale by Ansett Trading - October 2001

Aircraft had flown 50,643 hours & 35,499 cycles as of September 14, 2001

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

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - March 31, 2005

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as N863AT - March 31, 2005

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight - April 6, 2005

Ferried route: Melbourne-Honolulu-Opa Locka

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

Aircraft permanently retired at Opa Locka and parted out

Forward fuselage has been separated for use as 767 flight-deck simulator in Toronto, Canada


 

VH-RMH. Ansett - in the 'South Cross' livery with birthday sticker at Melbourne Airport.

(Image 4650-004. P. J. Gates Photograph)