August 2012 - New Deliveries / First Flights etc

[Moderator]

Please post any information/questions about new deliveries (and new aircraft movements), first flights etc in our region in this thread.

[lloyd fox]

Virgin VH-YIL arrived BNE yesterday.

[Zac M]

LQK should ferry to CBR via Cairns tomorrow.

[Mark Grima]

Is LQK currently bearing Canadian registration C-GOAO? This was in the dash 8 hanger at Canberra this afternoon. It was parked next to LQJ.

Cheers

M

[Zac M]

Yep, that's correct. It arrived this afternoon.

[Stefan Perkas]

Morning all,

A couple of new deliveries that should be seen in Australia soon...

A380 9V-SKS was delivered to Singapore airlines on Wednesday. This should be seen in Sydney soon.

A330-300 9M-MTH was delivered to Malaysia Airlines on Wednesday as well. This should be seen in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth (& Sydney from March 2013).

[Peter S.]

Skyliner-aviation.de reports the delivery of:

ATR 72 -212A 1025 VH-FVP Skywest Airlines delivery 28-30delivery 04aug12 TLS-CAI-AAN, Virgin Australia cs jul12 BFI-HNL-MAJ-SPN ex F-WWLR

Australian Aviation reports the name as Wategos Beach.

[Peter Agatsiotis]

c/n 1029 VH-FVN should follow soon; AL has 'Whitehaven Beach' as its name.

These are the first Atr72-600's for Skywest/Virgin Australia if my maths are correct?

[Dom Fortey]

Thats correct these are the first 2 ATR72-600.

Dom,

[Stefan Perkas]

Originally Posted by Stefan Perkas

A330-300 9M-MTH was delivered to Malaysia Airlines on Wednesday as well. This should be seen in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth (& Sydney from March 2013).

9M-MTH entered service today 4/8/12, it operated MH139/138 to Adelaide.