VH-EBQ (2)  Boeing 505-338C                                       (c/n 18953)

                                  

                                        Here's VH-EBQ on a foggy day in London Town....well, Heathrow, anyway.  Photo by (a very
                                        young) Greg Banfield in August 1972.  Rego enlarged below.  This 707, named 'City of Ballarat'
                                        was delivered to Qantas in September 1965 and flew its final revenue service for the airline on
                                        28 January 1974 (to Christchurch, New Zealand).   It then went to Malaysia Airline System as
                                        9M-ASQ.  A year later (June 1975) it was re-registered 9M-MCQ for some reason.   From
                                        1980 to 1985 it flew with Somali Airlines as 6O-SBM before being acquired by Omega Air and
                                        registered in the US as N342A.   It was then sold to the Boeing Military Airplane Co for spares
                                        for KC-135s.  It spent its final days parked at Davis Monthan AFB in Arizona until around 1999
                                        when it was broken up.