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VH-VKI. Boeing 787-8. c/n 36235-257. |
This aircraft was ordered new by Qantas Airways Ltd - December 14, 2005 It was allocated the Boeing Block Number 'ZA222' This was the 54th Boeing 787 to be built at the Charlestown, South Carolina plant It was the second Jetstar aircraft to be fabricated at Charlestown The final assembly was commenced - October 09, 2014 Rolled off the Boeing production line at Charlestown in an 'all-white' livery - December 03, 2014 Powered by General Electric GEnx-1B64/P2 engines with 63,800 lbs of thrust Fuel checks and engine runs commenced - December 16, 2014 Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-VKI - December 17, 2014 Registered to Qantas Airways Ltd, Sydney Leased to Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd, Melbourne as the registered operator First flown Charlestown - Charlestown as BOE222 - December 19, 2014 This flight (B1) lasted 2 hours 21 minutes with 1 cycle Test flown Charlestown - Acadiana as BOE222 - December 22, 2014 This flight (B2) lasted 1 hour 44 minutes with 1 cycle The aircraft was painted at Acadiana in the standard Jetstar livery Test flown Acadiana - Charlestown as BOE222 - January 07, 2015 This flight (B3) lasted 1 hour 25 minutes with 1 cycle Test flown Charlestown - Charlestown as BOE222 - January 12, 2015 This flight (B4) lasted 42 minutes with 1 cycle Customer inspection of the aircraft was carried out - January 14, 2015 Customer flight (C1) flown Charlestown - Charlestown - January 15, 2015 This flight lasted 3 hours 2 minutes with 1 cycle FAA Export Certificate of Airworthiness (CofA) issued - January 22, 2015 Customer flight (C2) flown Charlestown - Everett (Paine Field) - January 23, 2015 This flight lasted 4 hours 52 minutes with 1 cycle Accepted by K. Donaghy for Qantas Airways at Everett (Paine Field) at 18:05 hours (PST) - January 26, 2015 This was the 206th Boeing airliner delivered new to Qantas Airways It was the 8th Boeing 787 delivered to Qantas Airways The aircraft had flown 16 hours 6 minutes (block) on acceptance by Qantas It had flown 14 hours 6 minutes (flight) with 6 cycles on delivery Departed Everett (Paine Field) on the delivery flight to Australia as JQ7992 - January 28, 2015 It arrived at Melbourne (Tullamarine) on completion of the delivery flight - January 29, 2015 Delivery route: Seattle (Paine Field) - Melbourne Operated its first revenue service Melbourne (Tullamarine) - Denpasar as JQ35 - February 05, 2015 Current with Jetstar Airways |
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VH-VKI. Jetstar - in the standard livery at Kingsford Smith Airport, July 19, 2015. (G. Louis Copyright Image 4680-012.) |
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VH-VKI. Jetstar - in the standard livery at Kingsford Smith Airport, July 19, 2015. (G. Louis Copyright Image 4680-013.) |
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VH-VKI. Jetstar - in the standard livery at Kingsford Smith Airport, July 19, 2015. (G. Louis Copyright Image 4680-014.) |
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VH-VKI. Jetstar - in the standard livery at Kingsford Smith Airport, July 19, 2015. (G. Louis Copyright Image 4680-015.) |
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VH-VKI. Jetstar - in the standard livery at Brisbane Airport, September 2016. (C. Laugier Copyright Image 4680-154.) |
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VH-VKI. Jetstar - in the standard livery at Kingsford Smith Airport, September 17, 2022. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4680-178.) |
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VH-VKI. Jetstar - in the standard livery at Kingsford Smith Airport, September 18, 2022. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4680-155.) |