VH-EBI (2)   Boeing 707-138B                          (c/n  18068)

                                       

                                            Just love the cloud effect in this shot by Greg Banfield taken at Mascot in June 1964.  -EBI flew
                                            for Qantas for only seven years, from August 1961 to September 1968.  By that time the services
                                            were being taken over by 747s.  It was sold to Braniff in June 1969 as N105BN.     Greg saw it
                                            again later at Mascot on 27 June 1959 (below) whilst it was being prepared for its sale to Braniff. 
                                           Where's the rego?  Oh....there it is on the ventral fin (see enlargement).  It had many owners after
                                            that including identities of OE-IRA and SU-FAB.    It was finally returned to the Boeing Military
                                            Airplane Co in 1986 and was scrapped at Tucson, Arizona in 1991 when its parts were used in
                                            the KC-135E refurbishment program.