VH-CZH Douglas
DC-9-31
(c/n 47526)
VH-CZH was handed over to Ansett at Long Beach on
August 28, 1970. It was in Melbourne
by the end of
the month and went into service on September 2 . David Carter’s
picture shows it
at Mascot
in 1979 in the only livery it wore with the airline. Replaced by
a Boeing 737-200,
–CZH was
withdrawn from use in November 1981. It returned across
the Pacific in January
1982 and was sold to Midway Airlines as N934ML. Sold to a leasing
company in 1988, Mid-
way leased it bsack until 1992. It then was leased to several
different concerns and in 2001 was
registered HK-1230X with Aerorepublica S.A. in Columbia. In
December 2002 it over rotated
on take off from Bogota Airport, the resultant runway scrape of which
was so bad, that the aircraft
eventuallty scrapped. (But not before it had made its trip to
Barranquila and back). . Bits and
peices
were observed at Bogotsa Airpiort as late as 2005.