From Skyliners

Boeing 747 -438ER 32914 1331 VH-OEJ Qantas posn / in svc on 747 farewell flight / ferried 17jul20 SYD-CBR-SYD, ferried 22-23jul20 SYD-LAX-VCV, for use as engine test-bed

Qantas sold its last 747, along with five others, to General Electric.

...Little has been reported as to exactly what General Electric Co plans to do with the Qantas 747s.

Full story

https://australianaviation.com.au/20...ght-to-mojave/

well, they're not all going to be engine test beds.

None of them I suspect, sold for the engines, GE already has a 744 test bed. Some news outlets are quoting Mr Joyce as saying only five are going to GE, which is interesting given the pilot of the joyflights said the last plane was going for a cargo conversion.

OEJ has made its final flight into retirement at MHV as QF7474 on 24/7

End of an era and very sad.

Article and video Here from 9 news

Video of last landing

https://australianaviation.com.au/20...ing-in-mojave/

The ex VH-OJL flew out of Victorville today for Nashville as N963JM, is this the first time its flown since retirement?

Found a video of the landing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N1xb4-DsMig

From Skyliners

Boeing 747 -438 25151 865 N953JM Jet Midwest Group ferried 30jul20 VCV-MCI ex VH-OJL

Can't confirm if ff since retired ?

She was transported to be scrapped.

At least some 747 history will remain in local hands, I will drink to that https://wine.qantas.com/p/Qantas-747...ery/QA747FBC_V

OEH was deleted from the register on 09/10 as exported to USA

The secrets behind the flying radar ‘Roo

As our national airline celebrates 100 years, here’s a special gift to avgeeks everywhere–the inside story of the famous ‘Roo in the sky

Many years from now, when the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic is over, we’ll still be talking about one of 2020’s aviation highlights—how, on a spectacularly sunny July day, people across the globe were transfixed by a Boeing 747’s final flight as it created a colossal, connect-the-dots ‘flying kangaroo’ over the Pacific Ocean.

It was a parting and nostalgic love letter of sorts, a farewell to all those aviation enthusiasts who followed its final journey online as it flew to the aircraft boneyards of the Mojave Desert.

Headlining this brilliant achievement was Qantas’ Boeing fleet manager, Captain Owen Weaver. The 25-year company veteran is unsurprisingly humble about his flying successes and acknowledges that the feat was ‘absolutely not achievable on my own’.

https://www.flightsafetyaustralia.co...ing-radar-roo/

VH-OEI was deleted from the register on 15/02/21

OEE was deleted from the register on 13/04 as exported to USA

Exclusive: Inside Qantas 747 stored in boneyard for eight years

https://australianaviation.com.au/20...r-eight-years/

OEJ was deleted from the reg on 02/06/21

Pictured! We find every Qantas 747 still in a boneyard

https://australianaviation.com.au/20...in-a-boneyard/

Bit of an inaccurate title, they didn’t find all of them!

Just trying to milk hits more like it.

Good to see OJU getting a second life with RR, she’s in the background of this shot of an electric powered caravan.

https://aemo.com.au/newsroom/energy-...mercial-flight

Despite the rumours re GE my info turned out to be correct N329ZA (ex Wunala Dreaming VH-OEJ) is being converted to a freighter, owned by KALITTA AIR LLC which are not South American

The pic linked here suggests scrapping?

Maybe I was wrong! Interesting, no doubt time will tell, I suppose flying her again saves posting the parts!

Resurrected! Qantas’ last 747 flies out of boneyard

https://australianaviation.com.au/20...t-of-boneyard/

What a poorly written article.....

Was just looking at my past flights, last 747-400 flight was QF26 HND-SYD 1st Sept 2019, VH-OEJ !

Apparently Kalita have confirmed she a spares bird so my info was wrong, at least she was my last 744 flight and I got to see her off in style in 5b

The cockpit has already been stripped clean according to those in the know!

Exclusive: Last Qantas 747 will never fly again

https://australianaviation.com.au/20...ver-fly-again/

End of the line for OJU as "Rolls-Royce axes testbed conversion plan for ex-Qantas 747-400"
https://www.flightglobal.com/engines...150039.article

It 'appears' the legendary ex QF 744 VH-OEJ will now fly again as a freighter with Kalitta Air as N784CK.

It was originally registered to Kalitta as N329ZA to be used as spares, but it has now been given fleet number 784 and due to enter the Kalitta active fleet according to planespotters.net

I doubt that. The aircraft has been gutted to the bone.

If true, that would make it the world's only converted 747-400ER to freighter!

I wouldn't get my Hopes up as the previous aircraft to hold N784CK has been partially scrapped.

Stating how it 'appears' on planespotters.net

Time will tell if it is a mistake :)

Planespotters also notes it as a spares ship under N329ZA and above that says it was owned by Zephyrus Aviation Capital. I suspect the most likely explanation is that it's reached the point in its parts donor life where ZAC is no longer interested in it and Kalitta has taken over ownership with a change of registration to go along with that.