VH-MMS flew with MacRobertson Miller Airlines in Western Australia from December 1959. By the time it was withdrawn from the West in January 1972 it had amassed 41,000 hours at a remarkable utilisation of 3400 hours a year. From 1972 to 1989 -MMS flew with Ansett's eastern Australian airlines, and clocked a further 29,000 hours at a more normal utilisation of 1700 hours a year. That was not to be the end of its career and from 1991 to 1994 it added a further 2000 hours in Peru as OB-1454. The former -MMS was scrapped in Chile with 72,020 hours in the log book.
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