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VH-IMP. Boeing 717-2K9. c/n 55054-5013. Was also registered as: VH-NXI. |
This aircraft was rolled out of the Boeing Long Beach plant - November 1999 First flown as N9012J - ? Powered by BMW Rolls Royce RB715A-130 engines It was accepted by Bavaria International Aircraft Leasing - December 29, 1999 Placed in storage at Kingman, Arizona - January 2000 Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-IMP - April 06, 2000 Registered to Bavaria International Aircraft Leasing Leased to Impulse Airlines as the registered operator Departed Long Beach on the delivery flight to Australia - April 23, 2000 It arrived at Newcastle on completion of the delivery flight - April 30, 2000 Operated its first revenue service - June 05, 2000 Impulse Airlines ceased scheduled domestic services - May 22, 2001 Impulse Airlines entered into an agreement to operate services for Qantas via QantasLink It was transferred to QantasLink but was operated by Impulse Airlines - May 27, 2001 Ferried to Sydney (Richmond) for repainting into the original 'QantasLink' livery - August 14, 2001 Transferred and registered to Jetstar Airways Ltd, Sydney - May 25, 2004 It operated the inaugural Jetstar service Melbourne (Tullamarine) - Launceston as JQ101 - May 25, 2004 Delivered to Hawker Pacific at Brisbane for 'C' check - May 29, 2004 Withdrawn from use by Jetstar - December 10, 2005 Ferried to Sydney (Richmond) for repainting into the revised 'QantasLink' livery - December 10, 2005 National Jet Systems was awarded the contract to operate services for QantasLink Ferried Newcastle - Adelaide (West Beach) - Perth on delivery to QantasLink as QF7981 - January 24, 2006 Reregistered as VH-NXI - February 02, 2006 Leased to National Jet Systems, Adelaide as the registered operator Operated its first QantasLink service Perth - Port Headland as QF1814 - April 25, 2006 Registered to ANZ Banking Group Ltd - June 30, 2011 Leased to National Jet Systems Pty Ltd as the registered operator Registered to Qantas Airways Ltd, Sydney - November 24, 2015 Leased to National Jet Systems Pty Ltd, Adelaide as the registered operator Operated its final revenue service Sydney (Kingsford Smith) - Canberra as QJE6211 - May 29, 2023 It was withdrawn from service and stored at Canberra Test flown Canberra - Canberra as QJE6211 - June 14, 2023 Departed Canberra (09:45 AET) on its ferry flight to the United States for storage - June 16, 2023 It arrived at Victorville (15:36 local) having completed its ferry flight - June 27, 2023 Ferry route: Canberra - Alice Springs - Darwin - Cebu - Nagoya - Sapporo as Flight SXI2341 Ferried Sapporo - Anchorage as Flight QF6070 Ferried Anchorage - Seattle - Victorville as Flight SXI2341 Registered to Qantas Airways Limited, Sydney - October 26, 2023 Currently stored at Victorville |
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VH-IMP. Impulse Airlines - in the standard livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, May 2000. (G. Bennett Copyright Image 4660-107.) |
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VH-IMP. Impulse Airlines - in the standard livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, May 2000. (G. Bennett Copyright Image 4660-119.) |
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VH-IMP. Impulse Airlines - in the standard livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, May 2000. (G. Bennett Copyright Image 4660-108.) |
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VH-IMP. Impulse Airlines - in the standard livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, June 2000. (G. Bennett Copyright Image 4660-073.) |
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VH-IMP. Impulse Airlines - in the standard livery at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, May 2001. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-120.) |
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VH-IMP. QantasLink - in the original livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, September 2001. (G. Bennett Copyright Image 4660-133.) |
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VH-IMP. QantasLink - in the original livery at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, May 2002. (R. N. Smith Copyright Image 4660-040.) |
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VH-IMP. QantasLink - in the original livery at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, June 2002. (R. N. Smith Copyright Image 4660-041.) |
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VH-IMP. QantasLink - in the original livery at Coolangatta Airport, date unknown. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-002.) |
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VH-IMP. Jetstar - in the all-white livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, June 2004. (G. Bennett Copyright Image 4660-172.) |
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VH-IMP. Jetstar - in the all-white livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, November 2004. (G. Bennett Copyright Image 4660-173.) |
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VH-IMP. Jetstar - in the all-white livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, November 2004. (G. Bennett Copyright Image 4660-174.) |
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VH-IMP. Jetstar - in the all-white livery at Brisbane Airport, November 19, 2004. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-001.) |
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VH-IMP. Jetstar - in the all-white livery at Brisbane Airport, November 19, 2004. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-017.) |
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VH-IMP. Jetstar - in the all-white livery at Brisbane Airport, November 19, 2004. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-681.) |
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VH-IMP. Jetstar - in the all-white livery at Brisbane Airport, January 08, 2005. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-682.) |
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VH-IMP. Jetstar - in the all-white livery at Brisbane Airport, January 16, 2005. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-683.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Alice Springs Airport, June 2007. (T. Arbon Copyright Image 4660-365.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Alice Springs Airport, June 2007. (T. Arbon Copyright Image 4660-110.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, April 24, 2010. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-242.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, May 07, 2010. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-237.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, February 20, 2011. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-238.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, February 20, 2011. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-239.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, February 20, 2011. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-240.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, February 20, 2011. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-241.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, March 25, 2012. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-243.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, March 25, 2012. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-244.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, March 25, 2012. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-245.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, March 25, 2012. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-254.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, March 25, 2012. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-252.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, March 25, 2012. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-257.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, March 25, 2012. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-258.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, March 25, 2012. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-259.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at with additional 'Regional Airline Of The Year 2012' titles at Adelaide West Beach Airport, March 17, 2013. (T. Hsaynes Copyright Image 4660-659.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, December 29, 2013. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-661.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, November 14, 2014. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-660.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Perth Airport, December 11, 2015. (J. A. Fox Copyright Image 4660-411.) |
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VH-NXI. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, October 01, 2019. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-662.) |