VH-EAH

 

VH-EAH

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City of Perth
City of Launceston

VH-EAH
29APR68
Rolled out as 707-338C
VH-EAH
24MAY68
First flown
VH-EAH
12JUN68
Registered to Qantas Airways Ltd. Handed over to Qantas as "City of Perth". Departed Seattle on delivery to Sydney.
VH-EAH
14JUN68
Arrived Sydney at 1608. (TT: 7:59)
VH-EAH
07JUL68
Departed Sydney at 1010 for Auckland, Brisbane, Auckland & Sydney on its first service.
VH-EAH
22MAY69
Photographed at London, Heathrow.
VH-EAH
24OCT71
Renamed "City of Launceston"
VH-EAH
26NOV73
Operated a famine relief flight to Addis Ababa.
VH-EAH
14NOV74
Photographed departing Sydney.
VH-EAH
27DEC74
Operated a Cyclone Tracy relief flight from Darwin with 327 evacuees
VH-EAH
01JAN75
Operated a Cyclone Tracy relief flight from Darwin with 154 evacuees
VH-EAH
02JUN78
Departed Sydney at 1230 to Jakarta on its last service.
VH-EAH
10JUL78
Sold to ITEL Capital Investment Corp. (TT: 34077 Landings: 13623)
VH-EAH
11JUL78
Struck off Australian Register on sale to ITEL
HL7433
13JUL78
Leased to Korean Airlines
HL7433
DEC80
Sold to GATX Booth but lease to KAL continued.
N780JS
*09JAN86
Registered to Boeing Military Co or Northrop Grumman. The aircraft was intended for the Joint-STARS program but for whatever reason this did not proceed. *The FAA Register shows "Last action taken" on this date. Sister aircraft HL7432 msn 19626 (formerly VH-EAF) was registered N770JS on 19JAN86 so 09JAN86 probably represents the date of registration for N780JS.
TF-IUD
25SEP87
Registered to Tempair International Airlines (AL255/13)
TF-IUD
27SEP87
Registration cancelled (AL255/13)
-
25OCT87
Sold to Tempair (AL252/10)
5A-DTF
DEC87
To Oil Production Maintenance (Vienna) (AL255/13)
5A-DTF
NOV95
Noted stored at Tripoli all white (AL357/16)
Last known operator Libyan Arab Cargo.
-
25JUL05
Registration N780JS cancelled. (Source: FAA Register)
5A-DTF
05OCT08
Photographed as a parted-out hulk at Tripoli-Mitiga, Libya. Painted all white and still carrying the registration 5A-DTF.

 


 


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Issue
Date
Remarks
4
31MAY20
Added an image of VH-EAH. Thanks to Eric Allen.
3
19SEP17
Added an image taken at Heathrow in 1969 thanks to Peter Gates.
2
13APR11
Some sources state that this aircraft was scrapped by Northrop Grumman at Melbourne, Florida as N780JS. Photographic evidence that the aircraft is still in Libya as 5A-DTF suggests that the aircraft was not accepted for the Joint-STARS program but instead became TF-IUD and 5A-DTF as per the amended sequence shown above. Thanks to Jim Tomlinson for pointing out the anomaly.
1
27JUL06
Created individual page for this aircraft. Archived Updates for combined B707-338C/327C/349C list.

 

NOTES

1
There are four numbers in the second column of each header. These are:

1. The Constructor's Number (c/n or Manufacturer's Serial Number)
2. The Line Number (The order in which final assembly began)
3. Cumulative Line Number (The order in which the aircraft were rolled out)
4. Engineering Block Number (Customer Number)

Note: During early production, the Line Number was often the same as the Cumulative Line Number.

Source: "The Boeing 707 & 720" Air-Britain 1972.
2
Please forward any errors or updates to the Webmaster.
3
These sources are gratefully acknowledged.