On This Day - September 14, 1946.

The Trans-Australia Airlines Douglas C-47A-35-DL VH-AFA 'Hume' entered service.

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On This Day - September 14, 1967.

The Qantas Airways Boeing 707-338C VH-EBS 'Kalgoorlie' was the airline's first Boeing 707 to visit Papua New Guinea (Port Morseby).

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On This Day - September 14, 1992.

The Trans-Australia Airlines / Australian Airlines was sold to Qantas Airways Ltd.

 

 

On This Day - September 14, 2001.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, who had been appointed as adimistrators of the Ansett Group of Companies on September 12 by its owner Air New Zealand, grounded all operations due to the Group's insolvency.

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On This Day - September 14, 2001.

With services being grounded by the administrators, the Ansett Airlines Boeing 737-377 VH-CZM operated its final revenue service as Flight AN227 from Cairns to Sydney (Kingsford Smith). It was withdrawn from service and stored at the Ansett Terminal at Sydney (Kingsford Smith) before being advertised for sale by the administrators via the Aviation Capital Group on December 20.

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On This Day - September 14, 2001.

With services being grounded by the administrators, the Ansett Airlines Boeing 737-377 VH-CZO operated its final revenue service as Flight AN7 from Darwin to Sydney (Kingsford Smith). It was withdrawn from service and stored at the Ansett Terminal at Sydney (Kingsford Smith) before being advertised for sale by the administrators via the Aviation Capital Group on December 20.

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On This Day - September 14, 2001.

With services being grounded by the administrators, the Ansett Airlines Boeing 737-377 VH-CZP operated its final revenue service as Flight AN165 from Canberra to Melbourne (Tullamarine). It was withdrawn from service and stored at Melbourne (Tullamarine) before being advertised for sale by the administrators via the Aviation Capital Group on December 20.

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On This Day - September 14, 2001.

With services being grounded by the administrators, the Ansett Airlines Boeing 737-33A VH-CZS operated its final revenue service as Flight AN123 from Townsville to Brisbane. It was withdrawn from service and stored at Brisbane until it was ferried to Melbourne (Tullamarine) on October 26.

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On This Day - September 14, 2001.

With services being grounded by the administrators, the Ansett Airlines Boeing 737-33A VH-CZX operated its final revenue service as Flight AN15 from Coolangatta to Sydney (Kingsford Smith). It was withdrawn from service and stored at Sydney until it was ferried to Melbourne (Tullamarine) on March 13, 2002.

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On This Day - September 14, 2001.

With services being grounded by the administrators, the Ansett Airlines Boeing 767-277 VH-RMH operated its final revenue service as Flight AN218 from Perth to Melbourne (Tullamarine). It was then withdrawn from service, having flown 50,643 hours with 35,499 cycles.

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On This Day - September 14, 2002.

The Ansett Airlines Boeing 737-377 VH-CZI, having been sold to the Dart Group Plc in June for operation by Channel Express, departed Melbourne (Tullamarine) on its ferry flight to the United Kingdom (Bournemouth) as Flight AN40.

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On This Day - September 14, 2003.

The Virgin Blue Airlines Boeing 737-8FE VH-VOM 'Little Blue Peep' arrived at Christchurch (New Zealand) having completed its delivery flight from the United States (Seattle, Boeing Field) as Flight DJ9087. Whilst at Christchurch winglets were fitted during the pre-service maintenance.

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On This Day - September 14, 2009.

The Qantas Jetconnect Boeing 737-376 ZK-JNN departed Auckland (New Zealand) on its ferry flight to the United States (Tucson, Arizona) for storage and eventual scrapping as Flight QF6024.

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On This Day - September 14, 2013.

The first Boeing 787-8 for Jetstar Airways, VH-VKA, underwent its inaugural test flight at Boeing's Everett (Paine Field) as Flight BOE215.

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On This Day - September 14, 2013.

The Qantas Airways Boeing 767-338ER VH-OGG 'Rockhampton' was rolled out at Sydney (Kingsford Smith) in the special Disney 'Planes' livery, to promote the Australian premiere of the Disney film 'Planes'. Later that day it operated a special 'Premeire Planes Flight' from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) return as Flight QF6620.

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On This Day - September 14, 2013.

The Virgin Australia Airbus A320-231 VH-FNP was ferriend from Perth to Singapore (Seletar) as Flight VOZ9993, for overhaul and repainting into the standard Virgin Australia livery.

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On This Day - September 14, 2015.

The Qantas Airways Airbus A330-202 VH-EBI 'Yarra Valley' was ferried from Manila (Philippines) to Singapore (Paya Lebar) as Flight QF6007, for return to CIT Aerospace International at the end of the Qantas lease.

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On This Day - September 14, 2017.

The Jetstar Airways Airbus A320-232 VH-VQH was returned to service after having large 'Aussie Scrabble' decals applied to it at Melbourne (Tullamarine), operating Flight JQ514 from Melbourne (Tullamarine) to Sydney (Kingsford Smith).

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On This Day - September 14, 2017.

The Virgin Australia Boeing 737-8FE VH-YFZ 'Lake St. Clair' entered service operating Flight VA986 from Brisbane to Sydney (Kingsford Smith).

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