VH-RMK  Vickers 812 Viscount II                                    (c/n   355)

                                  

                                        This 800 series Viscount was not acquired by Ansett-ANA until September of 1960.  It
                                        had been built for Continental Airlines as N241V.  Greg Banfield's photo (above) shows it
                                        in latter day Ansett markings at Mascot in February 1966 whilst the shot immediately below,
                                        from the Peter Gates collection (taken at Essendon) illustrates the aircraft in the second of
                                        the tail livery schemes.  -RMK was sold Far East Air Transport (FAT) in Taiwan as B-2021. 
                                        Leased to Mandala Airlines as PK-MVO in the1970s, it returned to FAT in 1983 whence
                                        it was later scrapped at Chung Shan Airport, Taipei.