First flown as PH-FLP - November 3, 1967

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-EWL - November 10, 1967

Registered to East-West Airlines Ltd

Departed Schiphol on delivery flight - November 11, 1967

Arrived Tamworth at conclusion of delivery flight - November 19, 1967

Aircraft named 'City of Albury'

Entered East West Airlines service - December 7, 1967

Operated Sydney-Coolangatta-Sydney services for T.A.A. - February to July, 1968

Damaged beyond repair after crashing whilst landing at night at Bathurst Airport - May 31, 1974

Operating flight Sydney-Orange-Bathurst-Sydney

Flight crew: Capt F.H. Owen; F/O P.K. Power; Hostesses M.A. Love, A. Green

Flight crew and 30 passengers escaped uninjured

It slid for some 625 metres across the airport coming to rest near an airport building

Rear fuselage was distorted in the initial impact and starboard engine was torn off

Wind-sheer was cited as the cause - being the first recognised case to have occured in Australia

causing the loss of control by the pilots during landing

Aircraft was written off, ownership passing to the insurance company

Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register - October 11, 1974

Aircraft moved and stored at Bankstown Airport, Sydney

Donated to Bankstown Airport Fire Department - 1983

Had flown 17,210 hours and 20,462 cycles

PH-FLP. East West Airlines - in its original livery at Schiphol, November 1967.

(E. D. Daw Collection. 1999-393.)

VH-EWL. East West - in the modified livery at Sydney Airport, November 1969.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1999-311.)

VH-EWL. East West - in the experimental livery at Brisbane Airport, February 1971.

(P. J. Gates Photograph. 1999-911.)

VH-EWL. East West - in the experimental livery at Brisbane Airport, February 1971.

(P. J. Gates Photograph. 1999-937.)

VH-EWL. East West - following crash at Bathurst Airport, August 1974.

(E. D. Daw Photograph. 1993-159.)

VH-EWL. East West - remains stored at Bankstown Airport, November 1974.

(G. Wilkes Photograph. 1999-351.)

VH-EWL. East West - remains stored at Bankstown Airport, November 1974.

(G. Wilkes Photograph. 1999-349.)

VH-EWL. East West - remains stored at Bankstown Airport, November 1974.

(G. Wilkes Photograph. 1999-350.)

VH-EWL. East West - remains stored at Bankstown Airport, November 1974.

(G. Wilkes Photograph. 1999-352.)

VH-EWL. East West - the remains on the fire dump at Bankstown Airport, November 1983.

(G. Bennett Photograph. 1993-247.)