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On This Day - January 06, 1955. The Trans-Australia Airlines Vickers Viscount 720 VH-TVD 'Hamilton Hume' set a speed record of 144 minutes for the flight between Brisbane and Townsville. It then set another speed record of 40 minutes flying the next sector, from Townsville to Cairns. |
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On This Day - January 06, 1971. The Qantas Cargo Boeing 707-327C N7099, leased from Braniff International, entered service, operating Flight QF952 from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to San Francisco. |
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On This Day - January 06, 1992. The Australian Airlines Boeing 727-276A VH-TBJ 'Joseph Banks' operated its final passenger service. It was then withdrawn from use and stored at Melbourne (Tullamarine) awaiting sale, having flown 51,020 hours with 38,857 cycles. |
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On This Day - January 06, 2016. The Cobham Aviation Services British Aerospace 146-100A VH-NJC operated its final revenue service as Flight JTE950/959 from Perth - Granny Smith - Perth. |
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On This Day - January 06, 2017. The Qantas Airways Boeing 747-438 VH-OJM 'Gosford' achieved an amazing milestone of having flown 115,000 flight hours. This event occured whilst it was operating Flight QF118 from Hong Kong to Sydney (Kingsford Smith). |
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