This aircraft was ordered new by Trans Australia Airlines for use by Eastern Australia Airlines - ?

Rolled out at the Downsview plant - March 1990

Entered onto the Canadian Aircraft Register as C-GESR - April 04, 1990

Registered to de Havilland Canada Technology Ltd

First flown as 'C-GESR' - April 06, 1990

Powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120A turboprop engines

Accepted by Eastern Australia at Downsview - April 1990

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-TQR - April 24, 1990

Registered to Eastern Australia Airlines Pty Ltd

It arrived at Tamworth on completion of the delivery flight from Canada - April 25, 1990

Operated its first revenue service - ?

Operated its final revenue service Albury - Sydney (Kingsford Smith) as QF2214 - March 07, 2008

Ferried Sydney (Kingsford Smith) - Mildura for storage as QF6301 - March 07, 2008

Ferried Mildura - Brisbane in the basic Qantas livery for maintenance as QF6301 - April 24, 2008

Ferried Brisbane - Cairns - Port Moresby - May 22, 2008

Reregistered as VH-QQJ - June 06, 2008

Registered to Skytrans Regional Pty Ltd, Cairns

Ferried Port Moresby - Cairns on delivery to Skytrans after maintenance - July 12, 2008

Operated its final revenue service Cairns - Port Moresby as SKP1091 - November 04, 2009

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - November 04, 2009

Entered onto the Papua New Guinea Aircraft Register as P2-MCU - November 04, 2009

Registered to Airlines of Papua New Guinea

Operated its first revenue service Port Moresby - Cairns as CG100 - November 04, 2009

Current with Airlines of PNG

VH-TQR. Eastern Australia - in the 'Australian' livery at Brisbane Airport, August 1993.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 2923-170.)

VH-TQR. Eastern Australia - in the 'Australian' livery at Brisbane Airport, September 1993.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 2923-268.)

VH-TQR. Eastern Australia - in the 'Australian' livery at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, February 1995.

(N. Louis Collection Copyright Image 2923-171.)

VH-TQR. QantasLink - in the original livery at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, June 2002.

(R. N. Smith Copyright Image 2923-172.)

VH-TQR. QantasLink - in the original livery at an unknown airport, October 2003.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 2923-174.)

VH-QQJ. Skytrans - in the standard livery at Brisbane Airport, February 13, 2011.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 2923-173.)

P2-MCU. Airlines PNG - in the standard livery at an unknown airport, June 2015.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 2923-619.)