On This Day - September 24, 1938. The Short S.23C Empire Class Flying Boat, VH-ABC 'Coogee' arrived at Sydney (Rose Bay) on delivery to Qantas Empire Airways Ltd. It was the 5th aircraft to be delivered to the airline. |
On This Day - September 24, 1971. The Trans-Australia Airlines Douglas DC-9-31 VH-TJM 'Robert Towns' experienced a minor technical problem at Brisbane Airport, when the rear tailcone fell off the aircraft. |
On This Day - September 24, 1983. The Air Nauru Boeing 727-77QC C2-RN7 was withdrawn from service. |
On This Day - September 24, 1983. Air New South Wales commenced jet services to Norfolk Island, when its recently repainted Fokker F28-1018 Fellowship VH-FKD operated the first service from Sydney (Kingsford Smith). |
On This Day - September 24, 1984. The Ansett Airlines Boeing 767-277 VH-RMH arrived at Melbourne (Tullamarine), having completed its delivery flight from the United States (Seattle) . |
On This Day - September 24, 2004. The REX Regional Express SAAB 340B N362BE arrived at Wagga Wagga Airport, having completed its delivery flight from the United States. It was reregistered as VH-NRX before in entered service on November 3, operating Flight ZL664 from waggaWagga to Sydney. |
On This Day - September 24, 2014. The Qantas Airways Airbus A330-202 VH-EBC 'Surfers Paradise' returned to service, following its return from lease to Jetstar Airways, operating Flight QF597 from Brisbane to Perth. |
On This Day - September 24, 2014. The Qantas Airways Boeing 737-838 VH-VXB 'Yananyi Dreaming' returned to service as Flight QF848 from Darwin to Sydney (Kingsford Smith) following the completion of the planned maintenance and repainting into the standard Qantas 'new roo' livery at Singapore. |
On This Day - September 24, 2019. The Alliance Airlines Fokker F28-050 VH-QQW arrived at Perth, having completed its ferry flight from the United Kingdom, where it had been repainted into the special '100 Years - First England - Australia Aerial Flight' livery. |
On This Day - September 24, 2019. The Cobham Aviation Bombardier DHC-8-402 VH-IYK arrived at Perth, having completed its delivery flight from Germany. |