• Aircraft:

  Airbus A300B4-203

• Reg: VH-TAC photos
• Serial #:

  157

• Airline: Trans Australia Airlines (TAA)
• Photo Date: Jan 07, 1983
• Uploaded: Nov 04, 2008
• Sydney Kingsford Smith Int'l Airport - YSSY, Australia

Front Stbd view of TAA's third A300B4-203 VH-TAC (Cn 157, Del: 09Oct1981), at Gate 7 at Sydney's Domestic Terminal on 07Jan1983, with 'containerised baggage' handling equipment in position. The aircraft, named 'John Forrest', is in the then new TAA 'Hockey Stick 'livery. She was formerly Airbus Industrie F-WZMS, First flight 24Aug1981. My first flight in a TAA A300 was in VH-TAA, from YSSY to YMML (1.0 hrs) on 04Mar1982. I flew to YBBN in this aircraft (1.0 hrs) shortly after taking this photo.

Photographer

Aircraft

Graham Dinsdale Collection VH-TAC

1,775 4 0 Airbus A300B4-203

Scanned from a negative

Paul Denton VH-TAC

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