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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:707-338C
    Last Military Serial:A20-627 RAAF
    Construction Number:19627
    Last Civil Registration:VH-EAG
    Compressed ID:Boeing 707-338C sn A20-627 RAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (H.A.R.S.), Wollongong Airport, Wollongong, New South Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    1968

    Constructed as a 707-338C.

    16 May 1968

    To Qantas Airways with new c/r VH-EAG.
    Operated with markings: City of Hobart

    22 February 1974

    Markings Applied: Alice Springs

    26 March 1979

    Operated the last Qantas B707 flight.- Melbourne to Sydney.

    From 7 April 1979 to February 2001

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A20-627 and operated with these markings: Windsor Town.

    12 April 1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: The first two RAAF Boeing 707s were received from Qantas on 30 March 1979 as A20-624 and A20-627.Heres A20-627 (ex VH-EAG) at Perth on 12 April 1979, still in Qantas colour scheme with the RAAF roundel on the forward fuselage

    December 1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: A20-627 at Perth in December 1979, now in full RAAF paint scheme

    20 July 1991


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Boeing 707-338C of 33 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force at the 1991 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    22 July 1995


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Boeing 707-338C of 33 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force on display at the 1995 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    21 February 2001

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Stored and used as source of parts at RAAF Richmond.

    2009

    Scrapped.
    The front fuselage was salvaged.

    Based at Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (H. A. R. S.), Wollongong Airport, Wollongong, New South Wales.
    Only the front fuselage survives here.
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    15 August 2015


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 2015 photo during a visit to Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (H. A. R. S.), Wollongong Airport, Wollongong, New South Wales.
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