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On This Day - November 12, 1950. The Barrier Reef Airways Short S.25 Sandringham Mk 4 flying boat VH-BRC 'Coral Clipper' operated its final scheduled service. It was then withdrawn from use and stored at Brisbane (Hamilton Reach), with its registration cancelled. |
On This Day - November 12, 1952. The Trans Oceanic Airways Short S.45 Solent Mk 3 flying boat VH-TOD 'Somerset' operated its last passenger service. It was then withdrawn from service and stored at Sydney (Rose Bay) until it was sold in April 1953. |
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On This Day - November 12, 1956. The Australian National Airways Douglas DC-6B VH-INT 'Tatana' entered service. |
On This Day - November 12, 1964. The Qantas Airways Boeing 707-138B VH-EBM 'City of Launceston' departed Sydney (Kingsford Smith) on the proving flight to the United Kingdom (London, Heathrow) via the 'Fiesta' route. This 12,562 mile route involved stops at Nadi - Papeete - Acapulco - Mexico City - Nassau - Bermuda - London. |
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On This Day - November 12, 1974. The Adastra Aerial Surveys Douglas C-47B-35-DK VH-AGU was sold to East-West Airlines Pty Ltd. The aircraft was then converted to performance test the 'Interscan Instrument Landing System'. |
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On This Day - November 12, 2000. The Qantas Airways Boeing 767-336ER VH-ZXG entered service operating Flight QF405 from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Melbourne (Tullamarine). |
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On This Day - November 12, 2005. The Qantas Airways Boeing 767-338ER VH-OGT was utilised by Soccer Australia to transport the Australian Soccer Team from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Uruguay (Montevideo) as Flight QF6097. The 'Socceroos' were playing in a Soccer World Cup qualifying match. The return flight was on November 14. |
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On This Day - November 12, 2006. The Qantas Airways / Air Nauru Boeing 737-4L7 VH-RON, having been sold to Comair (British Airways), South Africa and reregistered as ZS-OAA, departed Melbourne (Tullamarine) on its delivery flight to South Africa (Johannesburg). |
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On This Day - November 12, 2011. The Jetstar Airways Airbus A330-202 VH-EBS arrived at Melbourne (Tullamarine) having completed its delivery flight from France (Toulouse) as Flight QF7994. |
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On This Day - November 12, 2011. The Qantas Airways Boeing 737-476 VH-TJF 'Brolga' operated its final passenger service as Flight QF487 from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Melbourne (Tullamarine). It was withdrawn from service at Melbourne where all Qantas titles and logos were removed. |
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On This Day - November 12, 2011. The Virgin Blue Boeing 737-7Q8 VH-VBF 'Mellie Melbourne' departed Melbourne (Tullamarine) on its ferry flight to Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) as Flight DJ9081 for post-lease maintenance and return to the lessor. |
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On This Day - November 12, 2022. The Alliance Airlines / QantasLink Embraer ERJ-190-100IGW N948UW arrived at Brisbane, having completed its delivery flight from Costa Rica (San Jose) as Flight QQ9813. It was reregistered as VH-XVX before it entered service. |
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On This Day - November 12, 2022. The Virgin Australia Boeing 737-7K2 VH-NBP arrived at Brisbane having completed its delivery flight from Singapore (Seltar) as Flight VA9948. |
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On This Day - November 12, 2024. The Qantas Airways Boeing 737-838 VH-VXQ, having been repainted into the airline's standard 'silver roo' livery by Flying Colours at Townsville, was ferried to Sydney (Kingsford Smith) as Flight QF6123. It was returned to service later that day, operating Flight QF997 from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Hobart. |
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