August 2012 - New Deliveries / First Flights etc

[Dom Fortey]

Morning All

from Puget Sound

VH-YIO B737-8FE Virgin Australia Delivered
L/N 4132 C/N 38714 B737-8FE VH-YIO VIRGIN AUSTRALIA
Dep BFI 10:37 PDT ETA LIH 13:07 HST
Call Sign VBH9882 Hex Code 7C7AAE

Dom,

[lloyd fox]

VH-YIO landed BNE this arvo.

[Grahame Hutchison]

From Puget Sound ...

First of the XZ series aircraft.

VH-XZA B737-838 Qantas First Flight
L/N 4150 C/N 39367
Dep RNT 10:14 PDT Arr BFI 12:24 PDT via MWH
BOE058 Hex 7C77F4

[Bob C]

Hi Grahame

Interesting to see the -XZ series being applied to B737s as this block was allocated to the B787 many moons ago but the constant delays and decreasing numbers of available regos reguired that block to be allocated elsewhere.

So I wonder if the time has come for Austrlia to investigate new methods of allocating registrations - ie numbers and letters perhaps - ie VH-123QF or perhaps four letters - ie VH-XZAA ?

Cheers

Bob

[Rowan McKeever]

Originally Posted by Bob C

I wonder if the time has come for Austrlia to investigate new methods of allocating registrations

G'day Bob... with 1206 available marks (as of 8am today) I think the issue should be more about asking airlines why they feel it's necessary to have 'blocks' of registrations and why they can't simply cherry pick the marks they like from those available. And perhaps also taking back the marks allocated to aircraft that haven't flown for longer than 'x' amount of time (there was talk of that happening a few years ago).

[Grahame Hutchison]

From Puget Sound ...

VH-YIQ B737-8FE Virgin Australia First Flight
L/N 4156 C/N 38715
Dep RNT 13:44 PDT Arr BFI 15:53 PDT via MWH
BOE844 Hex 7C7AB0

[Steve S... 2]

That's funny - when I logged in to that Puget Sound website an hour ago, it had listed the new 738 VH-YIR as being line number 4172 and had undetaken its first flight.

It is now not on there.

[Steve S... 2]

New QantasLink DH8-400 VH-LQJ is apparently scheduled to enter service today as QF1484 CBR-SYD at 5.35pm.

[Max C]

Might've got out early, currently operating QLK472D CBR-SYD according to flightaware.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHLQJ

[Todd Milton]

VH-LQJ has left Canberra on QF1472. Was resting outside the hanger when I left the airport late this morning, and according to flight aware it will be arriving into Sydney at 13:32.