This aircraft was built by British Aerospace at Hatfield - 1980

Originally entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-BIAF (CofR G-BIAF/R1) - July 28, 1980

Registered to British Aerospace PLC Aircraft Group, Hatfield

Reregistered as G-SSCH (CofR G-SSCH/R1) - May 29, 1981

Rolled off the production line at Hatfield as 'G-5-14' - March 1982

First flown 'G-SSCH' - April 2, 1982

Powered by Avco Lycoming LF502-R3 engines

It was painted in the brown 'BAe house' livery and used for performance, avionics, noise and crew workload tests

It was displayed at Farborough Air Show in the Dan-Air London livery as 'G-SSCH' - September 08 - 12, 1982

Engaged in flying daily to test pilot workload for CAA - December 1982

Route: Hatfield - Paris - Amsterdam - London - Hatfield

Reregistered as 'G-5-14' - December 21, 1985

Reregistered as G-SSCH - January 24, 1986

Prepared for lease to British Caribbean Airways - February 1986

Cancelled from the British Aircraft Register - March 06, 1986

Entered onto the United States Aircraft Register as N246SS - March 06, 1986

Registered to British Aerospace PLC Aircraft Group

Leased to British Caribbean Airways as the registered operator

Delivered to British Caribbean Airways - March 19, 1986

Reposessed by British Aerospace PLC - October 12, 1986

Leased to Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) - November 13, 1986

Returned to British Aerospace PLC at the end of the lease - September 19, 1987

Leased to Aspen Airways - December 06, 1987

Leased to Jet Acceptance Corporation - August 1989

Sub-leased to Air Wisconsin - April 03, 1991

Sub-leased to Westair Commuter Airlines (United Express) - February 15, 1992

Returned to Air Wisconsin and operated for United Express - January 01, 1993

Ferried Reykjavik - Stansted in United Express livery - March 10, 1998

Registered to First Security Bank NA Owner Trustee, Salt Lake City - June 05, 1998

Cancelled from the United States Aircraft Register - July 09, 1998

It arrived at Southend for repainting into the Cityjet livery - July 09, 1998

Entered onto the Irish Aircraft Register as EI-CPY - July 19, 1998

Leased to City Jet as the registered operator

Departed Southend in the 'Cityjet' livery on its delivery flight to Cityjet - July 24, 1998

Sub-leased to KLM (UK) in the 'Cityjet' livery - October 25, 1998

Returned to Cityjet at the end of the sub-lease - May 04, 1999

Sub-leased to Jersey European Airways in the 'Cityjet' livery with J.E.A. stickers - October 31, 1999

Used for London (City) - Dublin services

Jersey European Airways was enamed British European Airways - June 01, 2000

Returned to CityJet at the end of the sub-lease - October 28, 2000

Operated scheduled flights for Air France on charter flying London - Paris - 2000

Operated its last Air France service Brest - Paris (de Gaulle) as AF7733 - December 09, 2000

Ferried Paris (de Gaulle) - Norwich as WX141P - December 09, 2000

Ferried Norwich - Bournemouth as WX141P for storage - January 04, 2001

Underwent extensive maintenance with Flight Refueling at Bournemouth for fuel tank corrosion

It was observed at Bournemouth in the 'Cityjet' livery - May 18, 2001

Prepared for lease / sale to National Jet Systems, Australia

Cancelled from the Irish Aircraft Register - August 23, 2001

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-NJX - August 23, 2001

Leased to National Jet Systems as the registered operator

Departed Bournemouth on the ferry flight to Australia in 'all-white' livery as QFA4691 - August 27, 2001

It arrived at Perth on completion of the ferry flight - August 30, 2001

Route: Bournemouth - Palermo - Luxor - Dubai - Ahmedabad - Calcutta - Phuket - Jakarta - Port Headland - Perth

Repainted into the 'QantasLink' livery at Perth - September 2001

Operated by National Jet Systems for QantasLink

Operated its first revenue service Perth - Karratha as QF1912 - September 7, 2001

Operated its last revenue service Port Headland - Perth as QF1815 - February 13, 2004

Returned to National Jet and was observed in the 'National Jet' livery at Perth - February 29, 2004

Prepared for lease to Air Niugini in the National Jet livery

Ferried Cairns - Port Moresby as NC5525 - March 31, 2004

Operated its first Air Niugini revenue service Port Moresby - Cairns as PX090 - April 1, 2004

Operated its final Air Niugini revenue service Port Moresby - Cairns as PX4090 - June 29, 2004

Leased to Air Niugini - July 04 - 05, 2004

It was observed at Brisbane in the 'National Jet' livery - July 29, 2004

It was observed at Sydney (Kingsford Smith) in the 'National Jet' livery - October 03, 2004

Repainted into 'QantasLink' livery - December 2004

Returned to service with QantasLink Perth - Broome as QF1930 - January 05, 2005

Operated its final QantasLink service Port Headland - Perth as QF1815 - June 30, 2005

Ferried Perth - Adelaide (West Beach) on return to National Jet as QF6200 - June 30, 2005

Repainted into the 'National Jet' livery and returned to service with National Jet

Operated the QantasLink services QF1960 / 1961 / 1976 / 1977 - October 31, 2006

Route: Perth - Leinster - Perth - Mt Keith - Meekatharra - Perth

Withdrawn from service and stored at Adelaide (West Beach) - March 27, 2009

Registered to National Jet Systems Pty Ltd, Adelaide - November 02, 2009

Ferried Adelaide (West Beach) - Perth and returned to service with National Jet - December 04, 2009

National Jet was renamed Cobham Aviation Services - ?

Operated its final revenue service Baimuny - Perth as NJS5593 -September 06, 2012

Ferried Perth - Adelaide (West Beach) as NJS5500 - September 07, 2012

Permanently withdrawn from service at Adelaide (West Beach) and stored - September 07, 2012

The aircraft had flown 36,679 hours with 41,205 cycles

It is to be used as a source of spare parts and will be scrapped in 2013

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - ?