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On This Day - May 03, 1938. The Qantas Empire Airways Short S.23C 'Empire' Class flying boat VH-ABF 'Cooee' arrived at Brisbane, having completed its delivery flight from the United Kingdom (Southampton). It was the 2nd Short S.23 flying boat to be delivered to Qantas. |
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On This Day - May 03, 1955. The Qantas Airways Lockheed 1049C Constellation VH-EAG 'Southern Constellation' operated the airline's inaugural 'Lockheed 1049' service from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Tokyo (Japan) via Manila (Philippines). |
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On This Day - May 03, 1963. The Qantas Airways Lockheed 1049C Constellation VH-EAG 'Southern Constellation' was withdrawn from service at Sydney (Kingsford Smith) having flown 21,844 hours. It was then sold to Boeing / Airmotive Inc for parts. |
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On This Day - May 03, 1967. The Trans-Australia Airlines Douglas DC-9-31 VH-TJK 'Douglas Mawson' arrived at Melbourne (Essendon) having completed its delivery flight from the United States (Long Beach, California). |
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On This Day - May 03, 1993. The Dick Lang Douglas C-47A-20-DL VH-PWN, having been sold to Pionair Adventures Ltd, New Zealand the previous month, arrived at Auckland (New Zealand) having completed its delivery flight from Adelaide (West Beach). It was reregistered as ZK-AMS before it entered service. |
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On This Day - May 03, 2015. The Virgin Australia Boeing 737-8BK VH-VUN 'Carrickalinga Beach' was ferried from Melbourne (Tullamarine) to Christchurch (New Zealand) as Flight VA9948 for post-lease maintenance. |
On This Day - May 03, 2024. The National Jet Systems / QantasLink Boeing 717-231 VH-NXN departed Canberra as Flight SXI2435 on its ferry flight to the United States (California, Victorville) for long-term storage. |
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