Delivered to RAN 29/05/73 arriving Nowra NSW 07/06/73. Later coded '800'. Fitted with specialised electronic equipment between 1978 and 1980 and subsequently used for electronic countermeasures training. Initially operated by 851 Squadron and transferred to 723 Squadron 31/08/84. Decommissioned 23/06/00 and ferried East Sale for storage/sale 26/06/00. The logistics of moving such a large aircraft proved too much and N15-709 was broken up in 10/2019. On 23/10/2019 the forward fuselage plus a 2-metre section of the centre fuselage containing the EWTS arrived at FAAM Nowra

Over Blackpool Tower. HSA image.

Navy photo.

N15-709 was sold on the civil market in 2001 and ferried to the UK as 3C-QQP. It was then bought by Horizon Airlines and ferried back to Australia. Plans to fit a large cargo came to an nought when Horizon Airlines failed in October 2003. N15-709 ended up at the Australian Aviation Museum, Bankstown Airport as a static display.

N15-709 was delivered in 1973 for electronics countermeasures training. Decommissioned in 2000, it was ferried out of Australia as 3C-QQP in May 2001. It reached Norwich, UK only to be sold back in Australia to Horizon Airlines. 3C-QQP arrived at Sydney's Bankstown airport in July and was due to be fitted with a large cargo door when Horizon ceases operations. It was last reported with the Bankstown Aviation Museum with dummy engines and props.

This HS748 N15-709 was built in 1973 it was also registered as 3C-QQP it is now preserved at Bankstown Airport NSW.