VH-EBH
(3) Boeing 707-138B
(c/n 18067)
VH-EBH was
the first of a new order for four aircraft placed in 1960. As
such it was the first
707 built to dash 138B
standard on the production line. Qantas took delivery in August
1961
. Greg Banfield's shot above was taken
at Mascot in September 1966. It was withdrawn from
Qantas service in 1968 (could
hardly have been 'run-in') and sold to British West Indian Airways
as
9Y-TDC. It sustained serious damage during a nose-wheel-up
landing at Toronto in March
1973. Repaired, it remained with
BWIA until 1977 and was then reported as being entered
onto the Cayman Islands
registry as VR-CAN. It finally wound up at Marana Air
Park, AZ in
the new millennium. Parts of
the nose and cockpit were subsequently used in a simulator.