VH-EBB (2) Boeing 707-138
(c/n 17697)
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The original
allocation of VH-EBB was for a Catalina which was not taken up, so
this, in fact, was
the first
aircraft to carry this rego. It was also the first Boeing 707 to
be delivered to Qantas (VH-EBA
having been held in US for crew training, etc.). It was named 'City of Sydney'. When Greg
Banfield's
hangar shot
(above, with enlargement of tail and rego area below) was taken at
Mascot in in 1961 it
was still
wearing the original Qantas livery. In 1967 it wa sold to
Seymour Gross in Chicago and was
then leased out
to a number of operators, starting with Standard Airways with whom it
flew as N790SA.
It then had a
long and complicated history (see Aussieairlines full story at
http://www.aussieairliners.org/b-707q/vh-ebb/vhebb.html
and was finally retired at Port
Harcourt, Nigeria, following a terrorist bomb attack on the cockpit in
August 1998.
![](VH-EBB%20Banfield%20tail.jpg)