VH-RMS Boeing
727-177
(c/n 20278)
Delivered to Ansett-ANA at the
end of 1969, VH-RMS had been re-liveried into Ansett - Airlines
of Australia by
the time Greg Banfield saw it departing Mascot in May 1977
(above). It was sold
to Air Nauru in May 1980
as C2-RN7 and used on freight services. It was
leased by TAA as a
freighter in
1984 and came back onto the Australian Civil Register as VH-TBS in May
1987. In
the 1990s and
2000s it operated under lease for many freight organizations and
finally wound up
being donated to
the Australian Training College at Brisbane in 2004.