Built at the British Aerospace Hatfield plant for East West Airlines order

First flown at Hatfield as G-6-195 - May 23, 1991

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-EWR - June 12, 191

Registered to East West Airlines (Operations) Pty Ltd

Configured to seat 94 economy class passengers

Departed Hatfield on delivery flight to Australia - June 12, 1991

Arrived Tamworth at conclusion of delivery flight - June 17, 1991

Delivery route: Hatfield-Italy-Egypt-Yemen-Oman-India-Thailand-Singapore-Indonesia-Darwin-Tamworth

Operated first revenue service Sydney-Coolangatta - June 23, 1991

Acquired 'Tasmania, Australia's Best Holiday' & 'Wild About Tassie' titles - May 1, 1992

Withdrawn from East West service - November 4, 1992

Repainted into full Ansett Australia livery at Melbourne

Entered service with Ansett Express - November 25, 1992

Tansferred to Ansett Australia - April 1, 1993

Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd - March 17, 1994

Operated the final Ansett service Brisbane-Proserpine-Brisbane as AN964/965 (Capt Brown) - March 27, 1997

Operated the final Ansett service to Coffs Harbour & Ballina - March 25, 2000

Ansett ceased operations due to bankruptcy - September 13, 2001

Operated its final Ansett Australia service Canberra-Brisbane as AN976 - September 14, 2001

Commenced operations for the new 'Ansett' Brisbane-Townsville as AN4406 - October 9, 2001

Operated charters for Australian Defence Force Townsville-Darwin-Dili-Darwin-Townsville

Offered for immediate sale having flown 26,370 hours - October 25, 2001

Operated final A.D.F. charter as AN4347 Dili-Darwin - November 2, 2001

Operated revenue service Cairns-Brisbane as AN399 - November 3, 2001

Operated its final service as Brisbane-Wagga Wagga-Brisbane charter - November 22, 2001

Placed in open storage at Brisbane Airport

Aircraft had flown 26,867 hours with 21,854 cycles - June 27, 2002

Ferried Brisbane-Melbourne as AN4041 (Capt S. Henderson; F/O M. O'Halloran) - August 5, 2002

Placed in long-term storage at Tullamarine Airport, Melbourne

Ansett Australia livery removed at Melbourne during C-Check - September 2004

Test flown at Melbourne (Capts R. Goulet, G. Goodson) - October 4, 2005

Departed Melbourne on ferry flight to U.K. in all-white livery - November 16, 2005

Ferry route: Melbourne-Broome-Darwin-Denpasar-PenangColombo-Karachi-Bahrain-

Amman-Iraklion-Nice-Exeter

Flight crew: Capts G. Goodson, R. Goulet

Stored at Exeter for possible sale / lease by FlyBe Aviation Services

Reported aircraft would be going to Pan Air Lineas Aereas SA, Spain (T.N.T. company)

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - June 7, 2006

Entered onto the U.K. Aircraft Register as G-EEWR - June 8, 2006

Registered to Ansett Australia Ltd

Aircraft leased to Orionair, Valencia, Spain

Test flown at Exeter for U.K. C. of A. - June 21, 2006

Acceptance flight for Orionair flown - July 7, 2006

Ferried Exeter-Gerona-Valencia in all-white livery - July 7 - 10, 2006

Aircraft had flown 26,913:35 hours with 21,873 cycles

Cancelled from the U.K. Aircraft Register - July 12, 2006

Entered onto the Spanish Aircraft Register as EC-JVJ - July 12, 2006

Operated by Flightline for Orionair and maintained by Pan Air

Utilised on various short-term contracts

Orionair ceased operations - January 2009

Current status - ?

 

VH-EWR. East West - in the 'Wild About Tassie' livery at Melbourne Airport, October 1992.

VH-EWR. East West - in the 'Wild About Tassie' livery at Melbourne Airport, October 1992.

VH-EWR. East West - in the 'Wild About Tassie' livery at Brisbane Airport, December 1992.

VH-EWR. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' livery at Sydney Airport, March 1993.

VH-EWR. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' livery at Melbourne Airport, July 1993.

VH-EWR. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' livery at Canberra Airport, August 1993.

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

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

VH-EWR. Ansett Australia - in the 'Starmark' livery at Brisbane Airport, January 2001.

EC-JVJ. Orionair - in the all-white livery at an unknown airport, October 2006.