This was the third of four aircraft ordered new by Trans-Australia Airlines - June 13, 1967

Entered onto the Dutch Aircraft Register as PH-FNK - December 16, 1968

Registered to NV Kon. Ned. Vliegtuigenfabriek Fokker

First flown as 'PH-FNK' - December 17, 1968

Accepted by Trans-Australia Airlines at Amsterdam (Schiphol) - December 24, 1968

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-TQP - December 24, 1968

Registered to Australian National Airlines Commission, Melbourne

Cancelled from Dutch Aircraft Register - December 24, 1968

Departed Amsterdam (Schiphol) on the delivery flight to Australia - December 27, 1968

It arrived at Melbourne (Essendon) on completion of the delivery flight - January 03, 1969

Delivery route: Amsterdam - Brindisi - Athens - Damascus - Bahrain - Karachi - Delhi - Calcutta -

Bangkok - Singapore - Denpasar - Darwin - Alice Springs - Melbourne

Flight crew: Captains D. Bolton, H. Collings

The aircraft was named 'John McKinley'

Operated its first revenue service - January 10, 1969

It was repainted into the 'blue tail' livery at Melbourne (Essendon) - March 1970

It was the 7th T.A.A. Friendship to be repainted into the new livery

Withdrawn from service and stored at Melbourne (Tullamarine) - 1983

Sold to Scandinavian Airlines System - May 25, 1984

Departed Melbourne (Tullamarine) on the ferry flight to Sweden - July 11, 1984

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - July 26, 1984

Entered onto the Swedish Aircraft Register as SE-IRG - November 28, 1984

The aircraft was named 'Vigge Viking'

Sold to Aircraft Finance & Trading - December 06, 1989

Sold to Federal Express Corporation - December 06, 1989

Entered onto Dutch Aircraft Register as PH-FNK - March 13, 1990

Registered to Aircraft Finance & Trading

Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-FEAD (CofR G-FEAD/R1) - March 22, 1990

Cancelled from the Dutch Aircraft Register - March 23, 1990

Cancelled from the British Aircraft Register - May 05, 1992

Entered onto United States Aircraft Register as N741FE - May 05, 1992

Registered to Federal Express Corporation, USA

Leased to Empire Airlines and still in service - 2005

VH-TQP. T A A - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Melbourne Essendon Airport, March 1969.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 1993-013.)

VH-TQP. T A A - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Melbourne Essendon Airport, January 1970.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 1999-800.)

VH-TQP. T A A - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Melbourne Essendon Airport, January 30, 1970.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 1993-666.)

VH-TQP. T A A - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Melbourne Essendon Airport, February 1970.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 1993-014.)

VH-TQP. T A A Trans-Australia Airlines - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Canberra Airport, March 28, 1978.

(E. D. Daw Copyright Image 1999-443.)

VH-TQP. T A A Trans-Australia Airlines - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, October 03, 1979.

(R. N. Smith Copyright Image 1999-962.)

VH-TQP. T A A Trans-Australia Airlines - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, October 1979.

(G. Bennett Copyright Image 1993-323.)

VH-TQP. T A A Trans-Australia Airlines - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, November 1979.

(G. Bennett Copyright Image 1993-016.)

VH-TQP. T A A Trans-Australia Airlines - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, January 12, 1980.

(R. N. Smith Copyright Image 1993-115.)

VH-TQP. T A A Trans-Australia Airlines - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Brisbane Airport, March 1980.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 1993-015.)

VH-TQP. T A A Trans-Australia Airlines - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, December 1980.

(G. Bennett Copyright Image 1993-321.)

VH-TQP. T A A Trans-Australia Airlines - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Brisbane Airport, September 1982.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 1993-189.)

VH-TQP. T A A Trans-Australia Airlines - 'John McKinley' in the standard livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, June 1983.

(G. Bennett Copyright Image 1993-320.)

VH-TQP. T A A - in the basic livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, July 1984.

(G. Bennett Copyright Image 1993-324.)

SE-IRG. Scandinavian EuroLink - 'Vigge Viking' in the standard livery at Stockholm Airport, April 1989.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 1993-034.)

G-FEAD. Fedex Europe - in the standard livery at an unknown airport, May 1990.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 1999-998.)

G-FEAD. Fedex Europe - in the standard livery at an unknown airport, date unknown.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 1999-003.)

G-FEAD. Fedex Europe - in the standard livery at an unknown airport, November 1991.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 1993-503.)