Entered onto Ductch Aircraft Register as PH-EXC with export registration E-531 - November 20, 1975

Registered to Fokker-VFW BV, Schiphol Oost

First flown as PH-EXC - December 2, 1975

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-FCA - December 10, 1975

Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd

Cancelled from Dutch Aircraft Register - December 10, 1975

Accepted by Ansett Airlines of N.S.W. at Schiphol - December 10, 1975

Departed Schiphol on delivery flight - December 12, 1975

Arrived Melbourne at conclusion of delivery flight - December 17, 1975

Delivery route: Schiphol-Belgrade-Ankara-Teheran-Karachi-Delhi-Calcutta-Bangkok-Kuala Lumpur-

Singapore-Denpasar-Darwin-Alice Springs-Melbourne

Flight crew: Capts I. Brown, A. Garriock; F/O J. Colliton; Navigator B.S. McEwan

Operated A.A.N.S.W. first revenue service - December 19, 1975

Transferred to Ansett Australia - January 9, 1981

Aircraft remained in Air N.S.W. 'canary' livery

Operated final revenue service Melbourne-Devonport-Melbourne - January 25, 1988

Withdrawn from service and stored at Melbourne

Aircraft had flown 29,899 hours with 28,827 cycles

Sold to Mesaba Airlines - September 1989

Withdrawn from use and stored at Kingman, Arizona - September 1994

Sold to Eagle Canyon Airlines t/a Eagle Jet Charter Inc - January 15, 1997

Reregistered N283EA - May 12, 1997

Registered to Canyon Leasing Inc - September 23, 1998

Eagle Jet Charter purchased Scenic Airlines - December 1998

Repainted in Scenic Airlines livery the new trading name for Eagle Canyon Airlines - March 1999

Ferried from North Las Vegas-McCarren Field-Dallas City- Opa Locka - February 28, 2004

Aircraft was intended for scrapping

Cancelled from U.S. Aircraft Register - March 31, 2004

Sold to Atlantic Airlines, La Ceiba, Honduras - July 2004

Entered onto Honduras Aircraft Register as HR-ATL - July 2004

Observed at Opa Locka in all-white livery with Atlantic Airlines titles & company logo

VH-FCA. Ansett Airlines of New South Wales - in the 'delta' livery at Sydney, February 1979.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-263.)

VH-FCA. Ansett Airlines of New South Wales - in the 'delta' livery at Cooma Airport, July 1979.

(E. D. Daw Photograph. 1999-597.)

VH-FCA. Ansett Airlines of New South Wales - in the 'delta' livery at Sydney Airport, July 1979.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-284.)

VH-FCA. Ansett Airlines of New South Wales - with additional stricker at Sydney Airport, May 1980.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-831.)

VH-FCA. Ansett Airlines of New South Wales - in the 'delta' livery at Sydney Airport, July 1981.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-497.)

VH-FCA. Air New South Wales - in the 'canary' livery at Sydney Airport, May 1982.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-499.)

VH-FCA. Air New South Wales - in the 'canary' livery at Sydney Airport, April 1985.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-458.)

VH-FCA. Air New South Wales - in the 'canary' livery at Melbourne Airport, January 1986.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1993-032.)

VH-FCA. Air New South Wales - in the basic 'canary' livery at Melbourne Airport, December 1988.

(G. Bennett Photograph. 1993-236.)

N280MA. Air New South Wales - in the basic 'canary' livery at Melbourne Airport, December 1988.

(G. Bennett Photograph. 1993-241.)

N280MA. Air New South Wales - in the basic 'canary' livery at Melbourne Airport, December 1988.

(G. Bennett Photograph. 1993-240.)

N280MA. Air New South Wales - in the basic 'canary' livery at Melbourne Airport, December 1988.

(G. Bennett Photograph. 1993-239.)

N280MA. Northwest Airlink - in the basic livery without titles at Kingman, Arizona, March 1995.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1999-512.)

N280MA. Northwest Airlink - in the basic livery without titles at Kingman, Arizona, March 1995.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1999-921.)

N283EA. Eagle Canyon Airlines - in the full livery at unknown airport, July 1998.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1999-532.)

N283EA. Scenic Airlines - in the modified Eagle livery at unknown airport, September 2000.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1999-531.)

N283EA. Scenic Airlines - in the modified Eagle livery at Grand Canyon Airport, August 2000.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1993-200.)