Built at the Vickers-Armstrong Hurn factory

First flown - June 14, 1956

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-TVJ - June 21, 1956

Registered to Australian National Airlines Commission

Arrived at Melbourne's Essendon Airport on delivery to T.A.A. - June 26, 1956

Known ferry crew: Capt Fairbank; F/O Tamblyn; Navigator Madsen; Radio Operator Allen

Aircraft was named 'John Forrest' and later 'Ernest Giles'

Operated its first revenue service - July 11, 1956

Set speed record between Brisbane-Melbourne of 168 minutes (Capt. R. Andrews) - September 10, 1956

Sustain extensive damage when it collided with a hangar at Launceston Airport - January 19, 1957

Damaged when it departed runway on landing, striking machinery, at Brisbane Airport - April 1, 1958

Operated its final revenue service - October 10, 1968

Placed in storage at Brisbane Airport

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - May 13, 1970

Sold to Nonferral Metals (Queensland) for scrapping - May 27, 1970

Cockpit section now with Queensland Aviation Museum, Caloundra - 2003

Had flown 28,961 hours / 20,502 cycles

VH-TVJ. TAA Trans Australia Airlines - in the original livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(Image 0129-181. P. J. Gates Collection)

VH-TVJ. TAA Trans Australia Airlines - in the original livery at Cairns Airport, October 1959.

(Image 0129-268. A. Fraser Photograph)

VH-TVJ. TAA Trans Australia Airlines - in the original livery at Cairns Airport, October 1959.

(Image 0129-269. A. Fraser Photograph)

VH-TVJ. TAA The Nation's Jetline - in the final livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, December 1966.

(Image 0129-219. B. Dannecker Collection)

VH-TVJ. TAA The Nation's Jetline - in the final livery at Sydney Airport, May 1967.

(Image 0129-033. B. Dannecker Collection)

VH-TVJ. TAA The Nation's Jetline - in the final livery at Sydney Airport, date unknown.

(Image 0129-302. P. J. Gates Collection)

VH-TVJ. TAA The Nation's Jetline - in the final livery at Brisbane Airport, October 1968.

(Image 0129-296. P. J. Gates Collection)

VH-TVJ. TAA - in its basic livery awaiting final scrapping at Brisbane Airport, March 1970.

(Image 0129-293. P. J. Gates Collection)

VH-TVJ. TAA The Nation's Jetline - nose section at Queensland Air Museum, February 2006.

(Image 0129-287. R. Cuskelly Photograph)

VH-TVJ. TAA The Nation's Jetline - nose section at Queensland Air Museum, February 2006.

(Image 0129-288. R. Cuskelly Photograph)