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On This Day - April 17, 1968. The Qantas Airways Boeing 707-338C VH-EAD 'City of Melbourne' entered service, operating Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Christchurch (New Zealand). |
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On This Day - April 17, 1971. The Trans-Australia Airlines Vickers Viscount 816 VH-TVQ, having been sold to Far Eastern Air Transport, departed Melbourne (Essendon) on its ferry flight to Taiwan (Taipei). |
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On This Day - April 17, 1984. The Air Nauru Boeing 727-77QC C2-RN7, having been dry-leased to Trans-Australia Airlines the previous day, entered service as a freighter, operating Flight TN2440 from Melbourne (Tullamarine) to Perth. |
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On This Day - April 17, 2002. The Qantas Airways Boeing 737-838 VH-VXF 'Sunshine Coast' entered service, operating Flight QF677 from Melbourne (Tullamarine) to Adelaide (West Beach). |
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On This Day - April 17, 2006. The Air New Zealand Bombardier DHC-8-311Q ZK-NEF entered service, operating Flight NZ8118 from Nelson to Wellington. |
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On This Day - April 17, 2011. The Airwork Holdings leased Boeing 737-3S1SF N919GF arrived at Auckland (New Zealand) having completed its delivery flight from the United States (Florida / Miami). It was reregistered as ZK-TLE two days later. |
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On This Day - April 17, 2012. The Qantas Airways Boeing 747-438 VH-OJO departed Sydney (Kingsford Smith) on its ferry flight to the United States (California / Victorville) for storage and eventual scrapping. On engine shut-down the aircraft had flown 92,906 hours with 11,187 cycles. It was broken-up in 2014 |
On This Day - April 17, 2015. The Qantas Airways Airbus A330-202 VH-EBJ 'Margaret River' returned to service following its return from lease to Jetstar Airways and a major cabin reconfiguration, operating Flight QF597 from Brisbane to Perth. |
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