Line number 800 made its first flight on 2 april 1969. It was delivred as ZS-SAG to South African Airways on 17 April 1969 and sold as VP-WGA to Air Zimbabwe in March 1980. Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) took over the seven-oh-seven on 15 October 1982 and it became registration 4X-BYQ. In February 1983, it was redesignated EC707 Re'em and was reregistered to 4X-JYQ with the Israeli Defence Force/Air Force, in September 1986, it became 4X-BYQ with the and became again 4X-JYQ (with IDF/AF serial 242) in March 1991. The aircraft was assigned to 120sq.