Delivered new 22nd July 1981 and made its last commercial flight for Ansett Hobart-Melbourne 23rd Dec 1996. Seen here in temporary storage at YMML. It left on the 12th Apr 1997 for a new life in the USA and was re-registered N72381 17th Apr 1997, then converted to freighter and registered N626DH 5th Nov 1997

Delivered new 22nd July 1981 and sold as N72381 17th Apr 1997 for freighter conversion

Ex F-HBXP, registered 2nd Sep 2016 and flown to LFBT (Tarbes) 27th Oct 2019 for storage and lease return. Re-registered EI-DFL 11th Nov 2019

Loongana on its belly after the crew failed to lower the undercarriage. On 15 Nov 1954 the pilots of the Sydney-Brisbane flight were practising a new landing drill. The co-pilot was flying the aircraft and the captain handling flaps and gear. Despite warning horns, the captain was certain he had extended the gear and ordered the co-pilot to land. No injuries. The captain, with 23,000 hours in his logbook, was forced to resign from ANA. After minor repairs, VH-ANF ferried to ANA's Melbourne base for final repairs. During this work it was converted to freighter and remained in service until 1967. Sold to CAT in Taiwan as B-1811. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

Converted to freighter in 1955, sold in Taiwan as B-1811 in August 1967

VH-ANF seen engineless in the Essendon graveyard. It was resurrected in August 1967 and departed for Taiwan where it became B-1811.

Entered the Australian Register as VH-ANF July 16 1991. Enterd the USA Register as N72381 April17. 1997. also used the registrations N626DH OO-DLJ, EC-HHU, ZS-DPF Finally written off and used for fire training. Photograph taken by David Tanner.

This aircraft crashed in Cambodia on 15 July 1974 in service with China Airlines. Scanned from a slide by Graham Bennett collection.

Departing the Brisbane ramp destination Sydney.

Entered the Australian register as VH-ANF July 16, 1991. Entered the USA register as N72381 April17, 1997. also used the registrations N626DH OO-DLJ, EC-HHU, ZS-DPF Finally written off and used for fire training.

VH-ANF gets airborne from Runway 16. Ansett bought four 727s with longer range to operate Sydney to Perth non-stop. Sold in the US as N72381 in 1997