New Deliveries / First Flights etc December 2011

[Moderator]

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

[Grahame Hutchison]

The FedEx "Panda Express" is preparing to go.

http://blog.fedex.designcdt.com/pand...h9mkl4.twitter

[Brian Wilkes]

Shame FDX dont send there 777's down to Sydney.

[Steve Bottom]

Watch out for the new Skytrans Dash-8-300 VH-QQN, its been in the Cairns area the last few days, and could be used out of Brisbane at some stage, hex code for QQN is 7C534D

[Dave Parer]

VH-QQN made it's first visit to Townsville today. It operates CNS to TSV then a mining return charter out west then TSV back to CNS.

* 01-Dec 06:37 7C534D VH-QQN DH8C
* 01-Dec 12:00 7C534D VH-QQN DH8C

[Grahame Hutchison]

From Puget Sound ...

VH-YID B737-8FE Virgin Australia Delivered

L/N 3851 C/N 38709 B737-8FE VH-YID VIRGIN AUSTRALIA
Dep BFI 11:01 PST ETA HNL 14:22 HST
Call Sign VBH9080 Hex Code 7C7AA3 Sel-Cal LQ-BS
Note: All flight tests performed by Boeing used the
Hex Code 7C7AA4 which was coded in error by Boeing
& corrected to 7C7AA3 for the delivery flight.
7C7AA4 is allocated to VH-YIE

B-LJF B747-867F Cathay Pacific Cargo First Flight

L/N 1447 C/N 39243 B747-867F B-LJF CATHAY PACIFIC CARGO
Dep PAE 10:41 PST ETA PAE ??:?? PST via MWH
Call Sign BOE556 Hex Code 780A28 Sel-Cal DR-EJ

[Steve S... 2]

Hi...

New DJ 737-800 VH-YVD entered service today 02/12/11 as DJ702 Brisbane to Hobart.

Regards,

Steve S

[Jarden S]

From the December Australian Aviation, Network will get the first 3 F100s soon of 10 on order. They are coming from Avianca of Colombia. They had 15 once in operation now replaced with new A318-100s.

[Michael Dawson]

VH-YID is due into Brisbane from Nadi at 15:50 today.

Cheers

Michael

[phil.l]

9M-MUB A330F in today, thanks for the heads up Pete.