VH-PDI operated as a freighter carrying chickens that were a day old at the start of their 2300km journey from Sydney. The Big Bird motif refers to that role.

While inbound from Wilmington on 19.6.80, TriStar wake vortex caused this Caravelle to land heavily at the approach end of r/y 26. The left main gear collapsed and the aircarft came to rest almost a mile past the runway threshold. Originally delivered to United as N1010U in 10.61 and sold to Sterling as OY-SAM in 1.72, going back to the States with Midwest Air Charter in 5.78

Bought by Evergreen in 3.79 having previously been registered N6118A with PSA, McCulloch and originally American Airlines. Became N5534 in 4.79 - the second use of this identity on an Electra (cn 1066 was by this time N664F). Sold to the Argentine Navy as 0793/6-P-104 in 9.83 and preserved at Museo de la Aviación Naval, Bahia Blanca, since 4.08 in an all grey scheme