VH-EBV (3)    Boeing 707-338C                           (c/n  19295)

                               

                                      When its duties with Qantas were deemed over in February 1976 VH-EBV was overhauled by
                                      HAECO in Hong Kong for possible sale to B.Cal.   This sale was not consummated and the air-
                                      craft was stored at Sydney in all white livery.      Greg Banfield saw it in that status at Mascot in
                                      July 1976 (above).  It was later repainted in full Qantas livery and went on the serve the airline for
                                      another six months or so until it was again withdrawn from service in April 1977 and sold to
                                      Zambian Airways as 9J-AEL.     In 1989 it went to Trans-Arabian Air Transport as ST-ALP,
                                      and then was sold to Grumman Aerospace in June 1994 for J-STARS conversion.  It is currently
                                      with the USAF as an E-8C (92-3290)