VH-EBF (3)   Boeing 707-138                       (c/n  17701)

                            

                                  As indicated in the narrative for the Lockheed Electra, my own Australian aircraft collection does
                                  not really extend into the Boeing 707 era.  The above shot, taken at London's Heathrow by Jennifer
                                  Gradidge, shows a Qantas 707 in 1959, advertising the fortieth anniversary the airline.  I acquired
                                  it from Jennifer ostensibly to illustrate a book I was working on.     Greg Banfield's photo (below)
                                  illustrates -EBF in the then standard V-Jet livery of the day, having been taken at  Mascot in July
                                  1964.     VH-EBF was sold in 1968 to US supplemental carrier Standard Airways and registered
                                  N792SA.   Greg took shot another shot of it (# 3) at Mascot on 27 February of that year as it was
                                  being prepared for its new owner.    It then had a very convoluted career being leased  to a German
                                  air charter company (Air Commerz) as D-ADAQ, and then saw service in Turkey as TC-JBP.
                                  Broker F.B. Ayer leased it to Israeli Aircraft Industries who sub-leased it to El Al (as N792FA). 
                                  After a further lease to Bouraq in Indonesia it was eventually scrapped at the Pinal Airpark at Marana,
                                  Arizona.     At the foot of the page is a Peter Gates shot of it in its final livery and resting place taken
                                  on 26 March 1990.

                               

                               

                              

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