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On This Day - April 06, 1946. The Australian National Airways Douglas C-49-DO '41-7686' arrived at Brisbane (Archerfield) having completed its delivery flight from the Philippines (Tacloban) via Mt Ambon - Darwin - Cloncurry. It was then converted to civilian standards at the A.N.A. workshop at Brisbane (Archerfield) before being registered as VH-ANQ on May 22. The aircraft was named 'Dromana'. |
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On This Day - April 06, 1946. Qantas Empire Airways purchased the Royal Australian Air Force Douglas C-47A-20-DL 'A65-9' for the equivalent of $A 12,500. It was reregistered as VH-EAM on December 12, 1946. |
On This Day - April 06, 1967. The Trans-Australia Airlines Vickers Viscount 720C VH-TVD 'Hamilton Hume' was withdrawn from service and placed in open storage at Melbourne (Essendon). It was sold to Keagan Aviation, England on October 09, 1967. |
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On This Day - April 06, 1967. The Qantas Airways Boeing 707-338C VH-EBU 'City of Broken Hill' entered service, operating Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to New Zealand (Christchurch). |
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On This Day - April 06, 1974. The Trans-Australia Airlines Boeing 727-276A VH-TBI 'McDouall Stuart' arrived at Melbourne (Tullamarine) having completed its delivery flight from the United States (Seattle). |
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On This Day - April 06, 1994. The National Jet Systems Boeing 737-3Q8(SF) VH-NJE entered service operating for Australian air Express. |
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On This Day - April 06, 1996. The LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 767-35DER SP-LPA departed Auckland (New Zealand) on its ferry flight to Poland (Warsaw), following the completion of its 5-month lease to Air New Zealand. |
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On This Day - April 06, 2024. The Qantas Airways Airbus A380-842 VH-OQA 'Nancy-Bird Walton' returned to service operating Flight QF11 from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to the United States (Los Angeles). It had been withdrawn from use at Sydney (Kingsford Smith) on March 28, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then stored at Victotville since June 10, 2020. |