To depart on 3 month lease

Delivered new 3rd Sep 1985 and became VH-RMC/HB-IIX/VH-RMC then back to ZK-NBA 2nd Apr 1999. Sold as N326MR 14th March 2005

Restrictions on Melbourne's Essendon airport meant TEAL's Electras and BOAC's Comets were the only foreign airliners seen there regularly in the early 1960s.

G-AUNZ prepares to depart Richmond in the early hours of the morning in an attempt to make the first aerial crossing of the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. The aircraft and pilots Lieutenant John Moncrieff and Captain George Hood, both new Zealanders, vanished without trace. The irregular Morse tones sent from the aircraft ceased suddenly 12 hours into the expected 14-hour flight. Photo from: Hood Collection/State Library of New South Wales

Undated photo but postwar as the TEAL logo was not applied until then. ZK-AMA was delivered in 1939. It was towed into storage at RNZAF Hobsonville in November 1947. In August 1945 it was fast taxied, up on the step according to witnesses, to Mission Bay where it was to become an attraction. This was not to last and -AMA was scrapped in October 1950.

Photographed over the coast of California wearing the dual registration of ZK-TEA & N9724C, Scanned from a negative supplied by Lockheed.

ZK-NBA was delivered to Air New Zealand in September 1985. It was withdrawn from use in March 2005 and sold as N326MR for conversion to a freighter. During its years with Air New Zealand it was leased to TACA and Ansett (as VH-RMC) which subleased it to Swiss World (as HB-IIX).

The aircraft also carries Qantas titles as it is operating the joint routes from Australia to Wellington.

Qantas titles on rear fuselage for pooled services between Australia and Wellington/NZWN