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AIRFRAME HISTORY: 22672
Chronological order of events
Dates in Black are considered exact and dates in Red are approximate.

Date	Reg	Airline	Livery	Name	Event	Airport	Notes
1981-08-03	N1791B	Boeing			First Flight
1981-08-15	N1791B	Qantas	Full c/s with titles		Other		Testing spare engine pod Photo
1981-08-31	VH-EAB	Qantas			Reg Changed
1981-08-31	VH-EAB	Qantas	Old c/s, white reg		Delivered
1981-08-31	VH-EAB	Qantas	Old c/s, black reg		Delivered
1981-09-01	VH-EAB	Qantas	Old	Winton	Other		Christened "Winton"
1981-09-01	VH-EAB	Qantas	Original, black registration, Brisbane 1982	Winton	Seen	SYD	Photo
1986-11-01	VH-EAB	Qantas	new	Winton	Other	SYD	Repainted in new red tail "Spirit of Australia" livery. First flown in this livery 3rd Sept 1986 Information from www.aussieairliners.org
1989-02-01	VH-EAB	Qantas	New,	Winton	Seen		Photo
1990-01-01	VH-EAB	Qantas	New	City of Traralgon	Other		New name Photo
1990-03-01	VH-EAB	Qantas			For Sale		Aircraft offered for sale, continues to operate as a back-up aircraft for the fleet.
1993-11-01	VH-EAB	Qantas	New,	City of Traralgon	Seen		Photo
1994-04-09	VH-EAB	Australia Asia			Leased		Setup by Qantas to operate flights into Taiwan
1994-04-10	VH-EAB	Australia Asia		City of Traralgon	Seen		Photo
1994-09-01	VH-EAB	Australia Asia			Seen	SYD	Photo
1995-09-01	VH-EAB	Australia Asia		City of Traralgon	Seen		Photo
1996-04-05	VH-EAB	Australia Asia			Seen	SYD	Photo
1996-06-21	VH-EAB	Australia Asia			Incident	QLD	Loss of separation with a Bae146 Read story and report
1996-06-30	VH-EAB	Qantas			Returned
1996-07-10	VH-EAB	Australia Asia			Seen	SYD	Maintenance Video
1997-01-01	VH-EAB	Qantas			For Sale		Listed by Qantas as being FOR SALE.
1998-03-02	VH-EAB	Qantas			Seen	MEL	Operated QF88 HKG-MEL Read the story - My first 747SP flight
2000-01-01	VH-EAB	Qantas	New, "The Australian Airline" subtitles		Seen
2000-05-13	VH-EAB	Qantas			Incident		Birdstrike on departure from SYD. Read story about the incident Read document Source
2001-05-05	VH-EAB	Qantas			Incident		A major fuel leak from the number-2 engine developed during taxy to parking bay. Read story and reports on the incident
2001-06-22	VH-EAB	Qantas			Seen	TPE	Photo
2001-10-29	VH-EAB	Qantas			Ferried	MZJ	SYD-HNL-MZJ as QF6019 for storage (Capt B. Simpson)
2001-10-29	VH-EAB				Other	MZJ	Put into storage
2001-12-02		Qantas			Seen	MZJ	In storage
2001-12-20	VH-EAB				Reg Cancelled		Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register
2002-04-04		No Titles	Red tail		Seen	MZJ	Aircraft on belly in the sand. Photo
2002-04-23					Scrapped	MZJ	Had flown 69,469 hours and 15,098 cycles

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VH-EAB 747SP Australia Asia
Airport: SYD
Date: 1996-04-05
Photo: Wolodymir Nelowkin

VH-EAB 747SP Australia Asia
Airport: ???
Date: 1994-04-xx
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

VH-EAB 747SP Australia Asia
Airport: ???
Date: 1995-09-xx
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

VH-EAB 747SP Qantas
Airport: ???
Date: 19??-02-xx
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

VH-EAB 747SP Qantas
Airport: BFI
Date: 1981-08-xx
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

VH-EAB 747SP Qantas
Airport: SYD
Date: 1981-09-xx
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

VH-EAB 747SP Qantas
Airport: ??
Date: 1989-02-xx
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

VH-EAB 747SP Qantas
Airport: ??
Date: 1993-11-xx
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

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AIRFRAME HISTORY: 22672
Chronological order of events
Dates in Black are considered exact and dates in Red are approximate.