This L-1049G with registration # VH-EAG was originally issued to Qantas in 1954. After years of superb performance and numerous inaugural flights it was sold to Boeing in 1963 and eventually scrapped in 1965. In 1992 the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society of Australia began restoring an ex-USAF Connie which in 1994 was registered as "VH-EAG".