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VH-SMH. Boeing 717-23S. c/n 55063-5034. Was also registered as: VH-VQE; VH-NXE. |
This aircraft was ordered new by Pembroke Capital Aircraft Ltd Construction completed at Boeing Long Beach plant - August 2000 First flown at Long Beach as VH-SMH - ? Powered by BMW Rolls Royce RB715A-130 engines It was observed at Long Beach in the Impulse Airlines livery - August 18, 2000 Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-SMH - August 23, 2000 Registered to Pembroke Capital Aircraft Ltd Leased to Impulse Airlines as the registered operator Accepted by Pembroke Capital Aircraft Ltd at Long Beach - September 05, 2000 Departed Long Beach on the delivery flight to Australia - September 06, 2000 It arrived at Newcastle on completion of the delivery flight - September 08, 2000 Delivery route: Long Beach - Anchorage - Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky - Osaka - Manila - Darwin - Newcastle Operated its first Impulse revenue service ? - ? Operated its final Impulse revenue service ? - May 22, 2001 Impulse Airlines ceased scheduled domestic services - May 22, 2001 Impulse Airlines had entered into an agreement to operate services for Qantas via QantasLink Ferried Newcastle - Sydney (Richmond) for repainting into the QantasLink livery - May 23, 2001 Transferred to QantasLink but it was operated by Impulse - May 27, 2001 Ferried Sydney (Richmond) - Melbourne (Tullamarine) in the QantasLink livery - May 29, 2001 Operated its first QantasLink revenue service ? - ? Operated the inaugural QantasLink service Sydney (Kingsford Smith) - Newcastle as QF860 - June 17, 2001 Reregistered as VH-VQE - November 02, 2001 Registered to Pembroke Capital Aircraft Ltd Leased to Impulse Airlines Pty Ltd as the registered operator Leased to Jetstar Airlines Pty Ltd as the registered operator - December 23, 2003 It was observed at Melbourne (Tullamarine) in an all-white livery - April 04, 2004 Transferred to Jetstar - May 25, 2004 Operated its last Jetstar revenue service Newcastle - Melbourne (Tullamarine) as JQ377 - April 30, 2005 Ferried Melbourne - Adelaide (West Beach) - Perth on delivery to National Jet Systems - June 02, 2005 National Jet Systems was awarded the contract to operate services for QantasLink Reregistered as VH-NXE - June 24, 2005 Leased to National Jet Systems as the registered operator Operated its first revenue service Perth - Port Headland as QF1810 - July 01, 2005 Registered to Allco Leasing Msn 55062 Pty Ltd - June 05, 2007 Leased to National Jet Systems Pty Ltd as the registered operator The aircraft sustained substantial structural damaged during a heavy landing at Darwin - February 07, 2008 It was operating QantasLink service Cairns - Nhulunbuy (Gove) - Darwin as QF1944 with 88 passengers and 6 crew It had been cleared to fly a visual approach to runway 29 but the crew elected to carry out an ILS approach Aircraft was above the glideslope for majority of this approach which exceeded the operator's stabilised approach criteria To view and download the ATSB accident investigation report click 'HERE' Ferried Darwin - Adelaide (West Beach) after initial repairs had been carried out - May 02, 2008 Ferried Adelaide (West Beach) - Perth following these repairs as QF6201 - May 16, 2008 Returned to service Perth - Paraburdoo as QF1822 - May 17, 2008 Registered to Qantas Airways Limited, S ydney - October 12, 2015 Leased to National Jet Systems Pty Ltd, Adelaide as the registered operator Current with QantasLink |
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VH-SMH. Impulse Airlines - in the standard livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, September 2000. (G. Bennett Copyright Image 4660-121.) |
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VH-SMH. Impulse Airlines - in the standard livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, September 2000. (G. Bennett Copyright Image 4660-122.) |
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VH-SMH. Impulse Airlines - in the standard livery at Brisbane Airport, October 2000. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-043.) |
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VH-SMH. Impulse Airlines - in the standard livery at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, December 2000. (R. N. Smith Copyright Image 4660-183.) |
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VH-SMH. QantasLink - in the original livery at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, July 2001. (R. N. Smith Copyright Image 4660-076.) |
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VH-VQE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, December 2001. (G. Bennett Copyright Image 4660-155.) |
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VH-VQE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, January 2002. (G. Bennett Copyright Image 4660-156.) |
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VH-VQE. Jetstar - in the 'all-white' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, February 22, 2005. (R. Brown Copyright Image 4660-677.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, July 19, 2007. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-223.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, July 24, 2007. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-224.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, August 23, 2007. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-226.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, January 17, 2008. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-225.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, January 21, 2008. (N. K. Daw Copyright Image 4660-227.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Perth Airport, February 21, 2009. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-443.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Perth Airport, April 07, 2009. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-438.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Perth Airport, June 12, 2009. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-435.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Perth Airport, March 19, 2010. (R. Shaw Copyright Image 4660-087.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Perth Airport, March 19, 2010. (R. Shaw Copyright Image 4660-088.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Perth Airport, April 24, 2013. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-436.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, June 16, 2013. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-345.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, June 16, 2013. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-346.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, September 01, 2013. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-432.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Perth Airport, October 24, 2013. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-440.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Perth Airport, November 22, 2013. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-442.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Perth Airport, December 03, 2013. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-439.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Perth Airport, February 18, 2014. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-437.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the original livery at Perth Airport, February 19, 2014. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 4660-441.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, January 02, 2016. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-638.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, January 02, 2016. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-639.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, January 02, 2016. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-643.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, January 17, 2016. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-433.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, February 02, 2016. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-644.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, February 02, 2016. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-434.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Perth Airport, June 17, 2016. (J. A. Fox Copyright Image 4660-431.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, May 12, 2017. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-636.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, May 12, 2017. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-637.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, August 19, 2017. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-617.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, May 31, 2018. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-640.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, May 31, 2018. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-641.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, June 22, 2018. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-642.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'New Roo' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, September 16, 2018. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4660-646.) |
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VH-NXE. QantasLink - in the 'Silver Roo' livery at Canberra Airport, June 26, 2023. (F. McGuire Copyright Image 4660-686.) |