VH-EBS (2) Boeing
707-338C
(c/n 18955)
VH-EBS was delivered in March 1966 as “Kalgoorlie”,
the 6th of the airline’s stretched –338C
models . David Carter photographed it taxying
for take-off at Mascot in 1967 wearing its V-Jet
livery. In March 1973, Qantas withdrew –EBS from service
and leased it to Malaysian Airline
System as 9M-ASO. A few months later, MAS bought the
aircraft. During its time with the
airline it was reregistered 9M-MSC. The 707 passed to
Libyan operator United African Airlines
in
1981 as 5A-DJO and was destroyed in a crash in Libya on March 14, 1983
when operating as
a
freighter.