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On This Day - May 29, 1959. The Trans-Australia Airlines Vickers Viscount 816 VH-TVP 'John Gould' arrived at Melbourne (Essendon) having completed its delivery flight from the United Kingdom (Hurn). |
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On This Day - May 29, 1970. The Qantas Airways Boeing 707-338C VH-EBN 'City of Parramatta' operated the airline's inaugural Sydney (Kingsford Smith) - New York freighter service. |
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On This Day - May 29, 1974. The Qantas Airways Boeing 707-338C VH-EBR 'City of Wollongong' operated its final service, operating the freighter service Flight QF500 / 501 from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) - San Francisco - Sydney (Kingsford Smith). It was stored at Sydney (Kingsford Smith) on May 31 and offered for immediate sale, having flown 28,261 hours with 11,311 cycles. |
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On This Day - May 29, 1981. The Air New Zealand Boeing 747-219B ZK-NZV 'Aotea' arrived at Auckland (New Zealand) having completed its delivery flight from the United States (Seattle, Boeing Field). It was the airline's 1st Boeing 747. |
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On This Day - May 29, 1989. The Ansett Airlines Airbus A320-211 VH-HYH arrived at Melbourne (Tullamarine) having completed its delivery flight from France (Toulouse). |
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On This Day - May 29, 1994. The Ansett Airlines Boeing 737-33A VH-CZU arrived at Melbourne (Tullamarine) having completed its delivery flight from the United States (Seattle, Boeing Field) as Flight AN5981. |
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On This Day - May 29, 1998. The Asiana Airlines Boeing 747-48E HL-7416 was sold to Qantas Airways. It was reregistered as VH-OEB before it was delivered. |
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On This Day - May 29, 2001. The Impulse Airlines Boeing 717-23S VH-AFR was ferried to Sydney (RAAF Richmond) for repainting into the 'QantasLink' livery. |
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On This Day - May 29, 2001. The Impulse Airlines Boeing 717-23S VH-SMH, having been repainted into the original QantasLink livery, was ferried Sydney (RAAF Richmond) - Melbourne (Tullamarine) in preparation for its entry into service. |
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On This Day - May 29, 2003. The Impulse Airlines / QantasLink Boeing 717-231 VH-VQI was involved in an attempted hijacking whilst operating the Melbourne (Tullamarine) to Hobart service. |
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On This Day - May 29, 2006. The ex-Australian Airlines Boeing 767-338ER VH-OGJ was ferried from Sydney (RAAF Richmond) to Sydney (Kingsford Smith) following its repaint into the standard Qantas livery at the end of its lease. The aircraft was renamed 'City of Port Macquarie'. It returned to Qantas service later that day operating Flight QF463 from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Melbourne (Tullamarine). |
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On This Day - May 29, 2011. The Airwork Holdings Boeing 737-3S1SF ZK-TLE was ferried from Auckland (New Zealand) to Brisbane. Airwork had been contracted to operate freight services for Toll Holdings. |
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On This Day - May 29, 2023. The National Jet Systems / QantasLink Boeing 717-2K9 VH-NXI operated its final revenue service, operating Flight QJE6211 from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Canberra. It was then withdrawn from use and stored at Canberra. |
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On This Day - May 29, 2024. The Qantas Freight / Express Freighters Australia Boeing 767-381F VH-EFR was ferried from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Melbourne (Tullamarine) as Flight QF7527 for storage. All airline titles and logos were then removed from the aircraft. |
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