VH-EBW (3) Boeing
707-338C
(c/n 19296)
Two shots of -EBW by Greg
Banfield in almost identical attitudes both at Mascot, four years apart.
Above
it was departing the airport on 13 May 1973, and below, in the old
V-Jet livery on 7 March
1970. This 707 was delivered in October 1967.
It was sold to British Caledonian Airways in
May 1975 as
G-BDEA. After seven years service with that
carrier it was
withdrawn from use at
Gatwick in October
1982. It had several leases
after that and was cancelled from the UK register
in August 1992 when it
was entered onto the Liberian Aircraft Register (of convenience) as
EL-AKH.
Sold to Grumman Aerospace in February 1994 for
J-STARS conversion, it became a E-8C for the
USAF in 1998, a role it still enjoys.