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On This Day - April 22, 1948. The Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4-1009 VH-ANF 'Loongana' was sold to British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines. It was reregistered as VH-BPC the same day, and renamed 'Resolution'. |
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On This Day - April 22, 1948. The Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4-1009 VH-ANG 'Palana' was sold to British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines. It was reregistered as VH-BPD the same day, and renamed 'Discovery'. |
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On This Day - April 22, 1964. The Ansett-ANA Douglas DC-4-1009 VH-INK arrived at Melbourne (Essendon) having completed its delivery flight from Hong Kong, where it had been converted to an 'all-freight' configuration by HAECO. |
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On This Day - April 22, 1977. The Air New Zealand Fokker F.27-5237 ZK-NFB 'Korere' departed the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Schiphol) on the delivery flight to New Zealand. |
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On This Day - April 22, 1996. The Freedom Air International Boeing 757-204 G-BYAF operated its final revenue service, operating Sydney (Kingsford Smith) - New Zealand (Hamilton) - Auckland. |
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On This Day - April 22, 1997. The Ansett Australia Airbus A320-211 VH-HYT entered service, operating Flight AN60 from Malbourne (Tullamarine) to Brisbane. |
On This Day - April 22, 2012. The Qantas Airways Airbus A380-842 VH-OQA 'Nancy-Bird Walton' arrived at Sydney (Kingsford Smith), following the completion of its extensive repairs at Singapore, after it had suffered a major uncontained engine fire on November 02, 2010. |
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On This Day - April 22, 2014. The Airline of Virgin Blue Boeing 737-8FE VH-VUM 'Brindabella Blue' operated its last service in its current livery, as Flight VA381 from Brisbane to Townsville. It was then repainted by Flying Colours at Townsville into the standard Virgin Australia livery. |
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On This Day - April 22, 2016. The QantasLink Boeing 717-2K9 VH-YQX entered service, operating Flight QF1553 from Brisbane to Canberra. It had been ferried to Brisbane from Adelaide (West Beach) as Flight QF6202 the previous day. |
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