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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:707-138B
    Construction Number:17696
    Last Civil Registration:HZ-123
    Compressed ID:Boeing 707-138B cn 17696 cr HZ-123
    Latest Owner or Location:QANTAS Founders Outback Museum, Longreach, Queensland

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    Dates

    Event

    1959

    Constructed as a 707-138.

    29 March 1959

    To Boeing Aircraft Company with new c/r N31239.

    16 July 1959

    To QANTAS with new c/r VH-EBA.

    1962

    Converted to a 707-138B.

    1962

    To QANTAS keeping c/r VH-EBA.

    November 1967

    To Pacific Western Airlines with new c/r CF-PWV.


    Photographer: David A. Montgomery
    Notes: Departing Prestwick Airport in Scotland

    Circa 1971

    To Pacific Western Airlines with new c/r C-FPWV.

    October 1978

    To Tigerair Inc with new c/r N138TA.

    June 1981


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: At Paris Le Bourget Airport

    September 1984

    To Airmark Corporation with new c/r N220AM.

    1986

    To unknown owner with c/r N138MJ.

    1987

    To Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia with new c/r HZ-123.


    Photographer: David Oates
    Notes: At Southend Airport

    September 1999

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    At Southend (UK).

    To RAF Rochford, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, England.
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    Photographer: Paul Daly

    Circa 2007

    Ferry flight.
    Flown from Southend to Australia.

    10 June 2007

    To QANTAS Founders Outback Museum, Longreach, Queensland.
    Markings added: VH-XBA
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