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VH-BAT. Vickers 747 Viscount. c/n 97.
also registered as: VH-RMO.
Built at the Vickers-Armstrong Weybridge factory First flown as G-ANXV - September 15, 1955 Ordered by Butler Air Transport - June 18, 1954 Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-BAT - October 21, 1955 Registered to Butler Air Transport Pty Ltd Arrived at Sydney on delivery to Butler - October 4, 1955 Operated its first Butler service - Sydney-Coolangatta - November 4, 1955 Due to regulatory problems only limited services were operated Entered regular passenger service - Sydney-Dubbo - November 16, 1955 Operational problems were experienced with a number of N.S.W. country airstips - pavement cracking Viscount was replaced by Airspeed Ambassadors on a number of country routes Operated Butler's inaugural Sydney-Melbourne service - December 12, 1955 Transferred to Ansett-ANA when Butler was taken over - September 1958 Reregistered VH-RMO - May 1963 Leased to M.M.A. - April 18, 1968 to September 8, 1968 Withdrawn from service and stored at Essendon Airport - December 31, 1968 Had flown 29,064 hours / 24,441 cycles to date Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd - December 18, 1969 Overhaulled and repainted in blue-white color scheme for anticipated sale to Pan Indonesian Sale did not eventuate and stored in the Essendon Airport graveyard Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - March 26, 1970 Scrapped at Essendon Airport - July 22, 1976 Fuselage removed - October 25, 1976 |
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VH-BAT. Butler Air Transport - in their full color scheme, location & date unknown. (Image 0129-135. E. D. Daw Collection) |
VH-BAT. Butler Air Transport - in their full color scheme, date & location unknown. (Image 0129-142. B. Dannecker Collection) |
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VH-BAT. Butler Air Transport - in the full livery at Essendon Airport, date unknown. (Image 0129-196. E. D. Daw Collection) |
VH-BAT. Butler Air Transport - in the full livery at Sydney Airport, date unknown. (Image 0129-423. B. Dannecker Collection) |
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VH-BAT. Ansett-ANA - in the full livery with single tail bar at Essendon Airport, December 1958. (Image 0129-021. B. Dannecker Collection) |
VH-BAT. Ansett-ANA - in the full livery with twin tail bar at Essendon Airport, date unknown. (Image 0129-136. E. D. Daw Collection) |
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VH-RMO. Ansett-ANA - its full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown. (Image 0129-139. E. D. Daw Collection) |
VH-RMO. Ansett-ANA - in its full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown. (Image 0129-373. G. Bennett Collection) |
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VH-RMO. Ansett-ANA - in its full livery at Sydney Airport, February 1965. (Image 0129-107. G. Wilkes Collection) |
VH-RMO. Ansett-ANA - in its full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, April 1966. (Image 0129-309. R. N. Smith Collection) |
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VH-RMO. Ansett-ANA - in its full livery at Sydney Airport, December 1966. (Image 0129-325. R. N. Smith Photograph) |
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VH-RMO. Ansett-ANA - in its full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown. (Image 0129-194. P. J. Gates Collection) |
VH-RMO. Ansett-ANA - in the full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, April 1967. (Image 0129-204. P. J. Gates Collection) |
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VH-RMO. MMA Jetstream Service - in their full color scheme at Perth Airport, July 1968. (Image 0129-234. P. J. Gates Collection) |
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VH-RMO. Pan Indonesian - in their basic livery without titles at Essendon Airport, June 1969. (Image 0129-372. G. Bennett Collection) |
VH-RMO. Pan Indonesian - in the process of being scrapped at Essendon Airport, April 1976. (Image 0129-025. B. Dannecker Collection) |
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VH-RMO. Pan Indonesian - in the process of being scrapped at Essendon Airport, July 1976. (Image 0129-375. G. Bennett Collection) |
VH-RMO. Pan Indonesian - in the process of being scrapped at Essendon Airport, July 1976. (Image 0129-374. G. Bennett Collection) |
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