QF 744 maintenance

[Jack B]

Just curious as to whether Qantas has any 747's offshore for heavy maintenance at the moment?

I asked because I noticed VH-OJA hasn't been on 16right ACARS since last year, assume it's overseas in a hangar?

[Raymond Rowe]

Just curious as to whether Qantas has any 747's offshore for heavy maintenance at the moment?

I asked because I noticed VH-OJA hasn't been on 16right ACARS since last year, assume it's overseas in a hangar?


OJA did a flight to melbourne on sunday morning.

[Jack B]

I just noticed the ACARS archive on that site isn't updated regularly

my bad!

[Grahame Hutchison]

Apologies guys, missed my reminder, just updated the history.

But it does look like OJA may have been down in Avalon during January.

2009-02-08 08:53:00 VH-OJA B747-438 QF6018 Qantas ** Route Unknown **
2009-02-03 16:05:00 VH-OJA B747-438 QF6196 Qantas Avalon-Sydney
2008-12-28 08:14:00 VH-OJA B747-438 QF6195 Qantas Sydney-Avalon

[Robert Zweck]

Grahame,

I previously queried the ID of a B747-400 seen by me outside the Avalon hangar at 1100 hrs on Dec 28th.

It looks like it was VH-OJA and it arrived an hour or so before me.

( I forgot my binoculars )

[NickN]

I am pretty sure I saw OJA in Sydney during the spotting weekend.