The Australian International Airshow was held 18-23 February 1997 at Avalon Airport, Melbourne.

VH-HYB was painted in the Sydney 2000 livery between December 1996 & January 1997. The livery required 250 litres of paint.

Credit - George Canciani

#Avalon #AVV #Airbus #A320 #Skystar #Ansett 🇦🇺

After that plane literally flipped upside down after smashing into the runway and 100% of people survived, I hope every person who ever said “what’s even the point of seatbelts on a plane” feels like a real doof.

Up On Jacks.

On Saturday, June 11, 1983, Ansett Boeing 727-277A VH-RMM was mounted on jacks in the maintenance hangar for Open Day.

Credit - George Canciani

#OpenDay #June1983 #Iconic #Power #Tullamarine #Boeing727 #Advanced #PrattWhitney #JT8D #RomeoMikeMike #VHRMM #Ansett 🇦🇺

Ansett Boeing 747-312 VH-INJ at Hong Kong Kai Tak International Airport taxiing for take off as AN888 to Sydney in November 1994 with Northwest Boeing 747-251B N632US at the gate.

Credit - Klaus Brandmaier

#KaiTak #HongKong #HKG #Boeing747 #Northwest #Ansett #AnsettInternational 🇭🇰🇺🇸🇦🇺

"Every meal a gourmet's delight when you travel ANSETT-ANA. Succulent meals vary with season and flight, to tantalise the most fastidious palate..."

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Ansett-ANA "The Nation's Most Experienced Airline System". Reader's Digest Australia, 1959.

Boeing and Airbus.

In 1989, Ansett Boeing 737-377 VH-CZL faced off with newly delivered Airbus A320-211 VH-HYA on the apron at Melbourne Tullamarine.

Credit - Flash Fandango 📸

#Tullamarine #Melbourne #MEL #Landor #SouthernCross #StarsStripes #Boeing737 #VHCZL #Airbus #A320 #VHHYA #Ansett 🇦🇺

The Two Airlines Policy was relaxed in the early 1980s when TAA introduced the Airbus A300B4, whilst Ansett chose to purchase the Boeing 767.

Ansett wasted little time in counter-advertising, urging its customers to fly in a Boeing, not a 'Bus'.

#SYD #Airbus #A300 #TAA #Boeing767 #Ansett 🇦🇺

Hobart Farewells The 727.

Ron Hare on the left and Alan Clark on the right were both Flight Engineers with Ansett. Boeing 727-277LR VH-ANB's final revenue service was HBA-MEL as AN36, wearing the farewell title on 23 April 1997.

Credit - Peter Ruston 📸

#HBA #Boeing727 #VHANB #AnsettAirlines 🇦🇺

New Aerobridges at Tullamarine.

Ansett Airlines Douglas DC-9-31 VH-CZC at the Gate 3 aerobridge at Ansett's Tullamarine domestic terminal in 1972.

Credit - Ward Halter ©

#MelbourneAirport #MEL #Tullamarine #Gate3 #Aerobridge #Douglas #DC9 #VHCZC #AnsettAirlinesofAustralia 🇦🇺

Bali.

Boeing 767-277 VH-RMH was the 100th 767 built by Boeing and photographed at Bali's Denpasar Ngurah Rai International Airport.

This was AN218 DPS-SYD on Saturday, September 8, 2001, under the command of Captain Ted Norman.

Credit - Freek Blokzijl

#Bali #DPS #Boeing767 #VHRMH #Ansett 🇦🇺

Coolangatta.

Boeing 727-277A VH-RMP at Coolangatta Airport parked opposite the Eric Robinson Terminal at Bay 1. The gateway to the Gold Coast & Northern NSW region on Saturday, 22 November 1980.

Credit - Geoff Wilkes

#Coolangatta #OOL #GoldCoast #Boeing727 #VHRMP #RomeoMikePapa #AnsettAirlines 🇦🇺