This aircraft was built at the British Aerospace Hatfield plant for East-West Airlines order

First flown at Hatfield as 'G-5-179' - October 21, 1990

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-EWM - November 30, 1990

Registered to East-West Airlines (Operations) Pty Ltd

Configured to seat 94 economy class passengers

Departed Hatfield on the delivery flight to Australia - December 1, 1990

It arrived at Tamworth on completion of the delivery flight - December 5, 1990

Delivery route: Hatfield - Italy - Egypt - Yemen - Oman - India - Thailand - Singapore - Indonesia - Darwin - Tamworth

Operated its first revenue service Brisbane - Mackay - Cairns as EW352 - December 11, 1990

Transferred to Ansett Australia after Ansett purchased East-West Airlines - June 1993

Operated its final revenue service - July 1993

It was the last Bae146 to carry the East-West livery before being repainted into the 'Ansett Australia' livery

Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd, Melbourne - March 17, 1994

Operated its final revenue service Cairns - Brisbane as AN159 - September 13, 2001

Ansett ceased all operations due to bankruptcy - September 13, 2001

It was offered for immediate sale having flown 27,568 hours - October 25, 2001

The aircraft had flown 28,070 hours with 23,211 cycles - June 27, 2002

Ferried Brisbane - Melbourne (Tullamarine) as AN4041 (Captain S. Henderson; F/O M. O'Halloran) - July 4, 2002

PIt was placed in long-term storage at Melbourne (Tullamarine)

Test flown at Melbourne (Captains R. Goulet, G. Goodson) - October 20, 2005

Departed Melbourne (Tullamarine) on the ferry flight to the U.K. in all-white livery - November 30, 2005

Ferry route: Melbourne - Alice Springs - Broome - Surabaya - Medan - Colombo - Karachi - Bahrain -

Amman - Iraklion - Nice - Exeter

Flight crew: Captains G. Goodson, R. Goulet; Engineer S. Giuliano

Stored at Exeter for possible sale / lease by FlyBe Aviation Services

It was reported that the aircraft would be going to Pan Air Lineas Aereas SA, Spain (T.N.T. company) - June 13, 2006

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - June 15, 2006

Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-EEWM (CofR G-EEWM/R1) - June 15, 2006

Registered to Ansett Australia Ltd

Leased to Orionair, Valencia, Spain as the registered operator

Test flown at Exeter for its British Certificate of Airworthiness - July 11, 2006

Acceptance flight for Orionair flown - July 15, 2006

Ferried Exeter - Gerona - Valencia in an 'all-white' livery - July 16 - 17, 2006

The aircraft had flown 28,109:02 hours with 23,228 cycles

Cancelled from the British Aircraft Register - July 17, 2006

Entered onto the Spanish Aircraft Register as EC-JVO - July 17, 2006

Operated by Flightline for Orionair and maintained by Pan Air

Leased to Compagnie Aerienne du Mali for six months - March 2007

Ferried to Birmingham where 'Compagnie Aerienne du Mali' titles were applied - March 27, 2007

Departed Birmingham on delivery to Bamako, Mali - March 30, 2007

Departed Bamako, Mali on return to the lessor - May 2007

Repainted into Orionair titles and seen as such at Madrid - June 04, 2007

Wet-leased to new Italian carrier Vola Salerno / Global Aviation Network - August 2008

Ferried to Solerno ready to commence operations for Vola Salerno - August 01, 2008

Operated inaugural revenue service Salerno - Barcelona as OR1121 - August 02, 2008

Vola Salerno abruptly ceased operations blaming Orionair in part for its demise - December 18, 2008

Returned to Orionair as EC-JVO

Orionair ceased operations - January 2009

Current status - ?