Ordered new by Ansett-A.N.A. for Queensland Airlines - June 28, 1958

Entered onto Dutch Aircraft Register as PH-FBK - January 20, 1960

Registered to KNV Fokker NV, Schiphol Oost

First flown as PH-FBK - January 20, 1960

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-FNE - February 25, 1960

Registered to Ansett-A.N.A.

Configured to seat 40 passengers

Accepted by Ansett-A.N.A. at Schiphol - February 25, 1960

Departed Schiphol on delivery flight - February 26, 1960

Arrived Melbourne at conclusion of delivery flight - March 4, 1960

Ferry route: Amsterdam-Rome-Athens-Beirut-Damascus-Bahrain-Karachi-Delhi-Calcutta-Bangkok-Saigon-

Zamboanga-Biak-Darwin-Alice Springs-Melbourne

Flight crew: Capts R. Stapleton, E. Schumann, W. Ives; Navigator R. Wensor

Cancelled from Dutch Aircraft Register - March 7, 1960

Aircraft named 'Sir Henry Abel Smith' by Governor of Queensland - March 14, 1960

Flew first revenue service - Brisbane-Maryborough-Bundaberg-Gladstone-Rockhamptom - March 14, 1960

Registered to Queensland Airlines Pty Ltd - February 14, 1961

Registered to Australian National Airways Pty Ltd - December 14, 1964

Ferried to Melbourne for repainting in Airlines of N.S.W. livery - November 24, 1966

Leased to Airlines of N.S.W.

Returned to Ansett-A.N.A. - October 31, 1968

Leased to M.M.A. - March 12, 1969 to August 31, 1969

Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd - November 25, 1969

Leased to M.M.A. - April 15 - 18, 1970 and June 29 to July 2, 1970

Operated its final Ansett-A.N.A. revenue service as AN393 Canberra-Melbourne - March 25, 1971

Destroyed in hangar fire at Melbourne's Essendon Airport - March 25, 1971

Fuselage was gutted but wings & engines were salvaged - arson was suspected but never proved

Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register - March 25, 1971

Fuselage presented to Melbourne Airport Fire Services - survived until July 1986

Remains used as land fill

Had flown 27,989 hours with 39,944 cycles

VH-FNE. Queensland Airlines - in its full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, March 1960.

(John Hopton Photograph. 1999-776.)

VH-FNE. Queensland Airlines - at the official naming ceremony at Brisbane Airport, 14 March 1960.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1993-144.)

VH-FNE. Queensland Airlines - at the official naming ceremony at Brisbane Airport, 14 March 1960.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1993-048.)

VH-FNE. Queensland Airlines - in original livery at Brisbane Airport, March 1960.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1993-057.)

VH-FNE. Queensland Airlines - in the full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, March 1964.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1999-026.)

VH-FNE. Airlines of N.S.W. - in the early livery at Sydney Airport, April 1967.

(B. Dannecker Collection. 1999-236.)

VH-FNE. Airlines of N.S.W. - in the modified final livery at Moree Airport, October 1967.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1999-027.)

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

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-235.)

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

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1999-400.)

VH-FNE. Ansett-A.N.A. - in the final livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, March 1970.

(G. Bennett Photograph. 1993-367.)

VH-FNE. Ansett-A.N.A. - in the final livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, March 1971.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1999-558.)

VH-FNE. Ansett-ANA - the burnt out remains in the hangar at Essendon Airport, March 1971.

(G. Stephan Photograph. 1993-065.)

VH-FNE. Ansett-ANA - the burnt out remains in the hangar at Essendon Airport, March 1971.

(G. Stephan Photograph. 1993-066.)

VH-FNE. Ansett-ANA - the burnt out remains in the hangar at Essendon Airport, March 1971.

(G. Stephan Photograph. 1993-067.)

VH-FNE. Ansett-ANA - the burnt out remains in the hangar at Essendon Airport, March 1971.

(G. Stephan Photograph. 1993-068.)

VH-FNE. Ansett-ANA - the burnt out remains on the firedump at Essendon Airport, March 1980.

(G. Bennett Photograph. 1993-368.)