VH-EBR (2)   Boeing 707-338C                                 (c/b  18954)

                                 

                                      Here's the 'City of Wollongong' loading at Mascot on 27 March 1974 with the forward freight
                                      door open.   Greg Banfield, who took the photo, also provides a close up of the nose of the air-
                                      craft, taken at the same time (below).  VH-EBR flew its first revenue schedule on 12 February
                                     1966 on the Kangaroo Route to London.   In June 1974 it was sold to Malaysian Airline System
                                      as 9M-ATR (re-registered 9M-MCR in 1975).   From there it went to Somali Airlines as 6O-SBN
                                      and had the indignity of being hijacked to Addis Ababa on 24 November 1984 whilst en route from
                                      Mogadishu to Jeddah (I was in Jeddah at the time).   The incident ended well and the aircraft was
                                      released three days later unharmed.   It then went to the US as N449J and was RTP'd at Tucson in
                                      the late 1980s.