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On This Day - May 02, 1972. The Trans-Australia Airlines Douglas DC-9-31 VH-TJS 'Peter Warburton' operated the airline's inaugural Cairns - Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) - Honiara (Solomon Islands) service. |
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On This Day - May 02, 1987. The Qantas Airways Boeing 747-338 VH-EBY 'City of Darwin' arrived at Sydney (Kingsford Smith) having completed its delivery flight from the United States (Seattle, SeaTac) as Flight QF501. This flight was operated as a supplementary passenger service. It was the airline's 70th Boeing airliner and its 30th Boeing 747. |
On This Day - May 02, 2006. The Air New Zealand / Air Nelson Bombardier DHC-8-311Q C-FFOZ arrived at Nelson (New Zealand) having completed its delivery flight from Canada (Toronto, Downsview). It was reregistered as ZK-NEG before it entered service. |
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On This Day - May 02, 2006. The Qantas Airways Boeing 737-476 VH-TJQ 'Bellbird' operated its last passenger service as Flight QF694 from Adelaide (West Beach) to Melbourne (Tullamarine). It was then withdrawn from service and prepared for transfer to Qantas Jetconnect, New Zealand as ZK-JTQ. |
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On This Day - May 02, 2008. The Jetstar Airways Airbus A320-232 VH-VQF entered service, operating Flight JQ802 from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Hervey Bay. |
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On This Day - May 02, 2011. The Virgin Blue Airbus A330-243 VH-XFA was ferried from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) for repainting into the Virgin Australia livery. |
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On This Day - May 02, 2012. The Pacific Blue Boeing 737-8FE ZK-PBA 'Bonnie Blue' having been repainted into the standard 'Virgin Australia' livery at Christchurch (New Zealand) in April 2012 and renamed 'Peaceful Blue', returned to service operating Flight DJ71 from Christchurch to Sydney (Kingsford Smith). |
On This Day - May 02, 2018. The ex-Tiger Airways Australia Airbus A320-232 VH-VNJ 'Cossies Beach' entered service with Virgin Australia Regional Airlines, operating Flight VOZ9339 from Perth to Coondewanna as a BHP mining charter. |
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On This Day - May 02, 2022. The Alliance Airlines / QantasLink Embraer ERJ-190-100IGW N967UW arrived at Brisbane, having completed its delivery flight from Costa Rica (San Jose) as Flight QQ98125. It was reregistered as VH-UZQ before it entered service. |
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