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VH-BUT. Vickers Viscount 747. c/n 145.
also registered as: VH-RMP.
Built at the Vickers-Armstrong Weybridge factory First flown as G-ANYH - August 27, 1956 Ordered by Butler Air Transport - June 18, 1954 Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-BUT - September 19, 1956 Registered to Butler Air Transport Pty Ltd Arrived at Sydney on delivery to Butler - September 14, 1956 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 Leased to T.A.A. - December 9, 1957 to January 1958 Leased to T.A.A. - April 1958 to October 1958 Transferred to Ansett-ANA when Butler was taken over - September 1958 Reregistered VH-RMP - August 6, 1962 Operated its final Ansett-ANA service - AN125 Devonport-Wynyard-Melbourne - September 4, 1967 Withdrawn from service and stored at Essendon Airport on this day Major structural crack was found in the wing & aircraft was grounded permanently Had flown 24,161 hours / 20,439 cycles to date Used by Essendon Fire Department before being scrapped at Essendon Airport - May 25, 1969 Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - December 21, 1969 |
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VH-BUT. Butler Air Transport - in the full livery at Sydney Airport, March 1958. (Image 0129-216. B. Dannecker Collection) |
VH-BUT. Ansett-ANA - in the full livery with single tail bar at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown. (Image 0129-137. E. D. Daw Collection) |
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VH-BUT. Ansett-ANA - in the full livery with twin tail bars at Essendon Airport, date unknown. (Image 0129-267. A. Fraser Photograph) |
VH-RMP. Ansett-ANA - in the full livery with twin tail bars, location & date unknown. (Image 0129-371. G. Bennett Collection) |
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VH-RMP. Ansett-ANA - in the full livery at Brisbane Airport, date unknown. (Image 0129-148. P. J. Gates Collection) |
VH-RMP. Ansett-ANA - in the full livery at Sydney Airport, August 1964. (Image 0129-106. G. Wilkes Collection) |
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VH-RMP. Ansett-ANA - end of the line Melbourne's Essendon Airport graveyard, date unknown. (Image 0129-305. P. J. Gates Collection) |
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