Construction completed - May 15, 1957

Sold to Ansett Airways for $US 750,000

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-BZF - May 9, 1957

Departed San Diego on delivery flight to Melbourne - May 31, 1957

Arrived Melbourne at conclusion of delivery flight - June 8, 1957

Delivery route: San Francisco-Honolulu-Canton Island-Nadi-Noumea

Entered Ansett Airways service configured to seat 52 passengers - June 24, 1957

Transferred to Butler Air Transport in Ansett livery with Butler titles - March 1959 to July 1960

Reentered Ansett-ANA service - July 12, 1960 to July 2, 1961

Transferred to Airlines of N.S.W. - July 3 1961 to May 1962

Registered to Airlines of South Australia - May 14, 1962

Registered to Ansett Airlines of S.A. - November 1, 1968

Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd - November 25, 1969

Withdrawn from service at Adelaide Airport - February 12, 1972

Ferried Adelaide-Essendon for storage - February 15, 1972

Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register - April 27, 1973

Sold to Jack M. Garfinkle - May 1973

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as N102KA

Leased to Khmer Akas (Cambodian Air Services) - May 1973

Withdrawn from service and stored at Bangkok Airport - February 2, 1978

Preserved in the gardens of the Siam Park City Theme & Amusement Park, Minburi, Bangkok

Observed essentially complete but with right tailplane missing - August 2008

VH-BZF. Ansett - in the full livery & 'Metropolitan' roof titles at Brisbane Airport, date unknown.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1029-074.)

 

VH-BZF. Airlines of N.S.W. - in basic Ansett livery at Sydney Airport, date unknown.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1029-001.)

VH-BZF. Ansett-ANA - in the full livery with 'Convair' tail titles at Brisbane Airport, date unknown.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1029-014.)

VH-BZF. Airlines of South Australia - in the full livery at Adelaide Airport, date unknown.

(B. Dannecker Collection. 1029-029.)

VH-BZF. Airlines of South Australia - in the full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, February 1972.

(P. Gates Collection. 1029-005.)

N102KA. Cambodian Air Services - in basic A.S.A. liveryat Melbourne Airport, May 1973.

(P. Gates Collection. 1029-003.)

N102KA. Cambodian Air Services - in basic A.S.A. livery at Melbourne Airport, May 1973.

(P. Gates Collection. 1029-116.)

N102KA. Cambodian Air Services - in the full livery at Bangkok Airport, October 1975.

(P. Gates Collection. 1029-085.)