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On This Day - August 14, 1957. The Trans-Australia Airlines Vickers Viscount 720C VH-TVB 'Gregory Blaxland' set a speed record of 114 minutes for the flight between Townsville and Brisbane, shaving some 11 minutes from the previous record also set by this aircraft 0n October 07, 1955. |
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On This Day - August 14, 1957. The Trans-Australia Airlines Vickers Viscount 720C VH-TVD 'Hamilton Hume' set a speed record of 75 minutes for the flight between Sydney (Kingsford Smith) and Brisbane. |
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On This Day - August 14, 1967. The Qantas Airways Lockheed 188C Electra VH-ECB departed Sydney (Kingsford Smith) for the last time, on its ferry flight to the United States, having been sold to California Airmotive / Air California. The aircraft had flown some 16,455 hours with Qantas. |
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On This Day - August 14, 1981. The Ansett Airlines Boeing 727-277LR VH-ANB entered service, operating Flight AN1152 from Melbourne (Tullamarine) to Brisbane. |
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On This Day - August 14, 2001. The Impulse Airlines Boeing 717-2K9 VH-IMP was ferried to Sydney (RAAF Richmond) for repainting into the original QantasLink livery. |
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On This Day - August 14, 2012. The Sunstate Airlines / QantasLink Bombardier DHC-8-402NG VH-LQJ entered service, operating Flight QF1472 from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Canberra. |
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On This Day - August 14, 2014. The Virgin Australia Airbus A330-243 VH-XFA 'Cottesloe Beach' operated its last passenger service as Flight VA694 from Perth to Melbourne (Tullamarine). |
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On This Day - August 14, 2017. The Virgin Australia Embraer 190-100IGW VH-ZPN 'Arrawarra Beach' departed Brisbane in its ferry flight to the United States (Nashville) for return to the lessor and storage. |
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On This Day - August 14, 2021. The Alliance Airlines Embraer ERJ-190-100IGW VH-XFL arrived at Brisbane having completed its delivery flight from the United Kingdon (Norwich) as Flight SXI2141. |
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On This Day - August 14, 2022. The Alliance Airlines Fokker F27-050 VH-FKZ operated its final revenue service, operating Flight QQ3240/3241 from Adelaide (West Beach) - Olympic Dam - Adelaide (West Beach). It was then withdrawn from service and stored at Adelaide pending its sale to Panama Air. |
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On This Day - August 14, 2023. The Qantas Airways Boeing 737-838 VH-VXA 'Broome' had the 'Yes 23' decal applied to the rear fuselage. |
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