9V-SMA Boeing 747-412 (MSN 24061/717) of Singapore Airlines, at Perth Airport – 14 April 1989. Photo © David Eyre. **First visit to Perth by a Boeing 747-400** Also first visit of an aircraft in the then-new Singapore Airlines livery. This was the 6th 747-400 built by Boeing. SIA ordered 33 B747-400s, to replace their fleet of B747-200 & 747-300. Parked at Bay 53 (later bay 153). Pushed back 40 mins late at 3:10pm, but had engine problems and didn’t depart until 5am the next morning. First flight 15 Mar 1989 as N5573B, delivered 29 Mar 1989 (16 days prior to this photo). Withdrawn from service and stored at Victorville, California on 11 Oct 2004. Registered N733BA to Boeing in Aug 2005, then to PH-MPP with Martinair Cargo Nov 2005. Converted to freighter at Xiamen in Feb 2006. Leased to Air Cargo Germany as D-ADCG 2010-2013, then returned to Martinair Cargo (still with ACG titles) as PH-MPP and stored at Frankfurt, then Teruel (Spain) from Aug 2013 and still there in 2017.