DHC8 Scrapped in Cairns

[Greg Hyde]

Over the last two months two of the oldest DHC8 in Australia (and world) were broken up in Cairns Qld.

QQA/005 and QQC/008 were both reduced to spares and recently deleted from the Aust. register

[MarkR]

QQA had an incident early in the decade that subsequently highlighted a problem with many of the early build dash 8s that was noted but not properly rectified:

https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/4078889/ao-2012-005_final.pdf

Some sad shots of the recycling process

https://fnqskies.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/skytrans-dash-8-vh-qqa-gets-chop.html

[Jarden S]

Yes is a bit sad especially with it being in the new Skytrans livery.

[Robert.M]

Pity QQA wasn't donated to a museum.