VR-HGF makes Cathay Pacific's inaugural flight from Hong Kong to Perth. Flights staged through Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta three times a week arriving at midnight and leaving nine hours later. Cathay Pacific was the first and only airline to operate Convair jetliners on scheduled services to Australia and they served only Perth. When Cathay Pacific expanded to other Australian cities it was with Boeing 707s. VR-HGF left the fleet in 1975, becoming N88CH. Photo from: State Library of Western Australia

Built in 1961 for Japan Airlines and then sold to Cathy Pacific this Convair 880 was seen in the Jet Aviation workshops at Basle in 1975 being prepared for resale as N88CH. It was still in partial Cathay colours. Scanned from a slide