Aircraft originally ordered by Butler Air Transport for Queensland Airlines - December 13, 1956

Order taken over by Ansett-A.N.A. - June 28, 1958

Entered onto Dutch Aircraft Register as PH-FBA - September 16, 1959

Registered to KNV Fokker NV, Schiphol Oost

First flown as PH-FBA - September 20, 1959

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-FNA - October 5, 1959

Registered to Ansett-A.N.A.

Departed Schiphol on delivery flight to Australia - October 9, 1959

Arrived Melbourne at conclusion of delivery flight - October 15, 1959

Cancelled from Dutch Aircraft Register - October 30, 1959

Operated first revenue service - October 1959

Leased to MacRobertson Miller Airlines - September 7, 1967 to April 1968

Leased to MacRobertson Miller Airlines to cover loss of Viscount VH-RMQ - January 1, 1969

Ferried Melbourne-Adelaide-Forrest-Perth - January 1, 1969

Entered M.M.A. service - January 2, 1969

Returned Ansett Airlines for maintenance and replaced by Friendship VH-FNE - March 11, 1969

Leased to MacRobertson Miller Airlines - April 27, 1969

Returned to Ansett after M.M.A.'s first F-28 VH-MMJ entered service - September 28, 1969

Was technically transferred to Ansett Airlines of South Australia - October 2, 1969 to June 1970

Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd - December 18, 1969

Returned to Ansett Airlines of Australia - February 27, 1970

Repainted into Ansett Airlines of Australia 'delta' livery - June 1970

Leased to Ansett Airlines of Papua New Guinea - July 1970

Ferried Melboure-Lae - July 13, 1970

Operated first service with Ansett Airlines of Papua New Guinea - July 13, 1970

Leased to Air Niugini - November 1, 1973

Sold to Air Niugini - July 1, 1976

Entered onto Papua New Guinea Aircraft Register as P2-ANJ - July 20, 1976

Registered to Air Nuigini Pty Ltd

Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register - July 22, 1976

Withdrawn from use by Air Nuigini - February 1982

Sold to Rio-Sul Servicos Aereos Regionals SA, Brasil (t/a Rio-Sul) - March 1, 1982

Entered onto Brasilian Aircraft Register as PT-LCX - March 29, 1982

Sold to Pakistan International Airlines - February 6, 1990

Entered onto Pakistani Aircraft Register as AP-BDS

Delivered to P.I.A. - February 17, 1990

Aircraft named 'City of Zhob'

Reportedly withdrawn from use and stored at Karachi - April 2005

Aircraft had flown 87,922 hours with 89,995 landings

Advertised for sale on 'as is / where is' basis - November 24, 2006

Sold to Pakistan Navy for use as spares - 2007

Observed stored at Karachi - June 2007

VH-FNA. Ansett-A.N.A. - in original livery without radar at Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1999-395.)

VH-FNA. Ansett-A.N.A. - in original livery without radar at Adelaide Airport, date unknown.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1999-901.)

VH-FNA. Ansett-A.N.A. - in the original livery without radar at Broken Hill Airport, January 1960.

(G. Bennett Collection. 1993-284.)

VH-FNA. Ansett-A.N.A. - in original livery with radar, location & date unknown.

(B. Dannecker Collection. 1999-869.)

VH-FNA. Ansett-A.N.A. - in the final livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, October 1968.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1993-121.)

VH-FNA. Ansett-A.N.A. - in the final livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, September 1969.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-243.)

VH-FNA. Ansett-A.N.A. - in the final livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, September 1969.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1993-045.)

VH-FNA. Airlines of Papua New Guinea - in basic Ansett 'delta' livery at Melbourne, February 1972.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1993-198.)

VH-FNA. Airlines of Papua New Guinea - in basic Ansett 'delta' livery at Port Morseby, May 1973.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1999-825.)

P2-ANJ. Air Niugini - in the full livery at Port Moresby Airport, March 1978.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1999-074.)

P2-ANJ. Air Niugini - in the full livery at Port Moresby Airport, date unknown.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1999-135.)

P2-ANJ. Air Niugini - in the full livery at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport, June 1980.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-464.)

PT-LCX. Rio Sul - in basic Air Niugini livery at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport, April 1982.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1999-826.)

AP-BDS. Pakistan - in the revised livery at unknown airport, May 1994.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1999-900.)