First flown as PH-FAZ - September 11, 1959

Purchased new by the Department of Civil Aviation

Delivered to the Department at Melbourne's Essendon Airport - September 28, 1959

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-CAT - September 29, 1959

Crewed and maintained by Trans Australia Airlines - October 20, 1959 to March 27, 1978

Used for calibration and airfield survey work by DCA

Transferred to Department of Transport Air Transport Group - June 7, 1974

Sold to Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (C.S.I.R.O.) - July 3, 1978

Registered to C.S.I.R.O. Division of Cloud Physics - August 8, 1978

Crewed and maintained by East West Airlines - June 1, 1979 to 1991

Crewed and maintained by Civil Aviation Authority - 1991

Sold to Australian Flight Test Services & leased back to C.S.I.R.O. - November 18, 1993

Sold to Omega Aviation Inc - November 17, 2003

Stored at Adelaide's Parafield Airport

VH-CAT. Department of Civil Aviation - in the original livery at Essendon Airport, December 1970.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-474.)

VH-CAT. Department of Civil Aviation - in the original livery at Essendon Airport, July 1973.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1999-461.)

VH-CAT. DCA - original livery but without DCA crest at Essendon Airport, January 1975.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1993-194.)

VH-CAT. DCA - original livery but without DCA crest at Essendon Airport, January 1978.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-466.)

VH-CAT. C.S.I.R.O. - in basic DCA livery at Sydney Airport, August 1979.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-468.)

VH-CAT. C.S.I.R.O. - in basic DCA livery at Sydney Airport, August 1979.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-467.)

VH-CAT. C.S.I.R.O. - in basic DCA livery at Sydney Airport, January 1980.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-469.)

VH-CAT. C.S.I.R.O. - in basic DCA livery with nose probe at Sydney Airport, May 1980.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-470.)

VH-CAT. C.S.I.R.O. - in basic DCA livery at Sydney Airport, September 1981.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1993-193.)

VH-CAT. C.S.I.R.O. - in a revised DCA style livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, May 1984.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-473.)

VH-CAT. C.S.I.R.O. - in a revised DCA style livery at East Sale Airport, January 1985.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-472.)

VH-CAT. Cossa - in the new livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, December 1986.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1999-354.)

VH-CAT. Cossa - in the new livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, March 1987.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1999-507.)

VH-CAT. Cossa - in the new livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, July 1988.

(G. Bennett Photograph. 1993-258.)

VH-CAT. CSIRO Australia - in the revised livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(G. Bennett Photograph. 1993-261.)

VH-CAT. CSIRO Australia - in the revised livery at Brisbane Airport, July 1994.

(P. J. Gates Photograph. 1999-476.)

VH-CAT. C.S.I.R.O. Australia - in the revised livery, October 1994.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1999-509.)

VH-CAT. C.S.I.R.O. Australia - in the revised livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport.

(G. Bennett Photograph. 1993-260.)

VH-CAT. Airborne Research Vehicles - in the revised livery at Adelaide Airport, March 1996.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1999-475.)

VH-CAT. Airborne Research Vehicles - in the revised livery at Essendon Airport, March 1998.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1999-477.)

VH-CAT. Airborne Research Vehicles - in their revised livery at Brisbane Airport, October 1996.

(P. J. Gates Photograph. 1999-478.)