VH-EBF  Boeing 707-138                       (c/n  17701)

                            

                                  As indicated in the narrative for the Lockheed Electra, my own Australian aircraft collection does
                                  not really extend into the Boeing 707 era.  The above shot, taken at London's Heathrow by Jennifer
                                  Gradidge, shows a Qantas 707 in 1959, advertising the fortieth anniversary the airline.  I acquired
                                  it from Jennifer ostensibly to illustrate a book I was working on.     Greg Banfield's photo (below)
                                  illustrates -EBF in the then standard V-Jet livery of the day, having been taken at  Mascot in July
                                  1964.     VH-EBF was sold back in the US to aircraft broker FB Ayers and Associates in 1968
                                  becoming N792SA.  It was leased  to a German air charter company (Air Commerz) as D-ADAQ,
                                  and then saw service in Turkey as TC-JBP.     It was eventually scrapped at the Pinal Airpark at
                                  Marana, Arizona after returning to the US as N792FA   (Possibly 792SA was no longer available
                                  at that point in time, although it seems unlikely).  Anyway, the shot of it at the foot of the entry in its
                                  'final resting place' was taken by Peter Gates on 26 March 1990.

                               

                              

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