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On This Day - August 05, 1946. The Tasman Empire Airways Ltd Short S.25 Sandringham Mk 4 'Tasman Class' flying boat ZK-AMD 'RMA Australia' arrived at Auckland Harbour having completed its delivery flight from the United Kingdom (Poole). |
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On This Day - August 05, 1982. The Ansett Airlines Douglas DC-9-31 VH-CZF departed Melbourne (Tullamarine) for the last time, on its ferry flight to the United States (Phoenix, Arizona) for storage and sale to Marfreless Inc, for lease to the United States Navy. |
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On This Day - August 05, 2002. The REX Regional Express Airlines SAAB 340B VH-EKX entered service. |
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On This Day - August 05, 2002. The ex-Kendell Airlines SAAB 340B VH-KDR, having been sold by the Ansett Administrators to Australiawide Airlines, which were operating as Regional Express Airlines (REX) on August 01, entered service with REX. |
On This Day - August 05, 2013. The Virgin Australia Boeing 737-8FE VH-YFR 'Scamander Bay' was ferried from Brisbane to Sydney (Kingsford Smith) as Flight VA9650. It then operated a special 'Starlight Children's Foundation Charity' flight over Sydney and its surrounds as Flight VA9561. It returned to Brisbane later that day as Flight VA9563. |
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On This Day - August 05, 2014. The Qantas Freight Boeing 737-376SF VH-XMO was ferried from Singapore (Seletar) to Perth to Melbourne (Tullamarine) as Flight QF7302, after being repainted into the Qantas 'New Roo' livery. It returned to service later that day operating Flight QF7331 from Melbourne (Tullamarine) to Brisbane. |
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On This Day - August 05, 2024. The Royal Australian Air Force Boeing 737-8 MAX BBJ A62-002 entered service with RAAF Number 34 Squadron, operating Flight ASY60 from Canberra (RAAF Fairbairn) to Sydney (RAAF Richmond). |