Originally built as a Lockheed 1049E-55 for Northwest Orient Airlines order

Completed as a Lockheed 1049E-55-118 for Qantas

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-EAL - September 24, 1954

Registered to Qantas Empire Airways Ltd

First flown - January 22, 1955

Accepted by Qantas at Burbank - January 26, 1955

Aircraft was named 'Southern Breeze'

Departed Burbank on delivery flight to Australia - January 29, 1955

Arrived Sydney at conclusion of delivery flight - January 31, 1955

Delivery route: Burbank-Honolulu-Nadi-Sydney

Total flight time for delivery flight - 29 hours 25 minutes

Operated first revenue service Sydney-London - February 16, 1955

Withdrawn from service for modification to 1049E-01-55 standard - 1956

Withdrawn from service for fitment of weather radar - April 17, 1957

Returned to service - May 1957

Operated final revenue service Sydney-Port Morseby-Sydney - October 15, 1959

Sold to Lockheed Aircraft Corporation - October 1959

Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register - November 10, 1959

Aircraft had flown 13,990 hours with 3,044 cycles

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as N9719C - November 10, 1959

Departed Sydney on ferry flight to Ontario, California (Capt J.R. Carroll) - November 11, 1959

Leased to Twentieth Century Airlines - 1959

Leased to Trans International Airlines - June 1, 1962

Sold to LANSA (Peru) - February 1964

Entered onto the Peruvian Aircraft Register as OB-R-741 - February 29, 1964

Observed at Long Beach ready for delivery to LANSA but deal fell through - April 1964

Cancelled from the Peruvian Aircraft Register - October 9, 1964

Sold to California Airmotive Corporation - 1964

Sold to American Flyers Airline - October 31, 1964

Entered onto the U.S. Aircraft Register as N9719C

Aircraft badly damaged whilst landing at Ardmore, Oklahoma - September 20, 1965

Was making a three-engine ferry flight, overshot the wet runway and ended up in a ditch

Accident attributed to a poorly executed approach and landing

Declared uneconomical to repair and was written-off and used for spares

Last reported sighting at Ardmore - August 1966