Construction completed - September 16, 1957

Sold to Ansett Airways for $US 750,000

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-BZM - July 23, 1957

Departed San Diego on delivery flight to Melbourne - October 25, 1957

Delivery route was - San Francisco-Honolulu-Canton Island-Tontouta

Arrived Melbourne - October 30, 1957

Leased to Queensland Airlines to cover late delivery of F.27 - March 1960

Withdrawn from Ansett-A.N.A. service - May 1962

Sold to Allegheny Airlines Inc - June, 1962

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to San Francisco - June 1, 1962

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - June 5, 1962

Registered to Allegheny Airlines as N8422H - June 5, 1962

Converted to CV-580 standard by Pacific Airmotive Corp - October 20, 1967 to January, 1968

Delivered to Allegheny - becoming N5835 - January 20, 1968

Sold to Commuter Airlines Inc - July 28, 1978

Leased to Freedom Airlines - September 7, 1982

Sold to Air Ontario - becoming C-GGWH - October 14, 1984

Leased to Air Toronto - April 1988

Leased to Canair Cargo Ltd - November 1991 to December 1993

Sold to Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter - January 1994

Leased to Fieldair Air Freight N.Z. - becoming ZK-JDQ - February 2, 1994 to December 24, 1996

Cancelled from the Canadian Aircraft Register - March 8, 1994

Entered onto the Canadian Aircraft Register as C-FKFL - April 1997

Leased to Air Monarch Cargo, Mexico City - November 1997 to June 2000

Withdrawn from use and stored at Kelowna's Ellison Field

Planned to convert to freighter with large freight door or water bomber

Cancelled from the Canadian Aircraft Register - November 29, 2002

Leased to Conair - December 2002

Re-entered onto the Canadian Aircraft Register - December 5, 2002

VH-BZM. Ansett-A.N.A. - in the Ansett livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(Image 1029-017. E. D. Daw Collection)

VH-BZM. Ansett-A.N.A. - in the Ansett livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(Image 1029-078. E. D. Daw Collection)

N8422H. Allegheny - in the full livery, location and date unknown.

(Image 1029-144. R. N. Smith Collection)

N5835. Allegheny - in the full livery at unknown airport, June 1970.

(Image 1029-146. R. N. Smith Collection)

 

N5835. Freedom Airlines - in the full livery at unknown airport, July 1981.

(Image 1029-136. R. N. Smith Collection)

C-GGWH. Air Ontario - in the new livery at Atlantic City, NJ, September 1987.

(Image 1029-057. R. N. Smith Collection)

C-GGWH. Canair - in Air Ontario's livery at Toronto Airport, October 1993.

(Image 1029-060. C. Caswell Photograph)

C-GGWH. Canair - in Air Ontario's livery & no titles at Toronto Airport, March 1994.

(Image 1029-061. C. Caswell Photograph)

C-FKFL. Air Monarch - in basic Kelowna livery at Ellison Field, November 1997.

(Image 1029-142. R. N. Smith Collection)

C-FKFL. Air Monarch - in basic Kelowna livery at Mexico City Airport, February 2000.

(Image 1029-143. R. N. Smith Collection)