New Deliveries / First Flights etc May 2012

[Ian Gains]

B-6547 A330-200 China Southern visited MEL today. It's so new that it's HEX code wasn't getting any hits in Libhomeradar earlier today.

[Stefan Perkas]

A couple of new aircraft deliveries to international airlines which will make
their way to Australia in the near future.

Emirates took delivery of B777-300ER A6-EGR on Wednesday 30/5/12. Depedning on configuration all citites that Emirates B777's fly in Australia may see this aircraft. However going by previous deliveries it may only visit Melbourne
(EK408/409) and Brisbane (EK432/433)

Malaysia Airlines took delivery of A330-300 9M-MTG on Thursday 31/5/12. Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth should see this aircraft real soon.

[Peter S.]

From the Puget Sound Boeing Test Flights blog:

Monday, 4 June 2012
VH-YIH B737-8FE Virgin Australia First Flight
L/N 4070 C/N 38712 B737-8FE VH-YIH VIRGIN AUSTRALIA
Dep RNT 13:42 PDT ETA BFI ??:?? PDT via MWH
Call Sign BOE835 Hex Code 7C7AA7 SELCAL MQ-DS


and from the HNL RareBirds list of upcoming aircraft [4 more registrations]:

VH-YFJ | 41001 | Virgin Australia | -8FE
VH-YIH | 38712 | Virgin Australia | -8FE
VH-YIJ | 39924 | Virgin Australia | -8FE
VH-YIL | 38713 | Virgin Australia | -8FE «
VH-YIM | 38716 | Virgin Australia | -8FE «
VH-YIO | 38714 | Virgin Australia | -8FE «
VH-YIQ | 38715 | Virgin Australia | -8FE «
VH-YIR | 39925 | Virgin Australia | -8FE
VH-YIS | 39926 | Virgin Australia | -8FE