New Deliveries / First Flights etc April 2012

[David Knudsen]

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

[Oliver Gigacz]

New Virgin A332 (VH-XFC) is scheduled to leave Toulouse at 02:00AM AEST, tomorrow morning.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHXFC

[Steve S... 2]

Hi...

VA 738 VH-YFI entered service today 3/4/12 as DJ912 BNE-SYD.

Regards,

Steve S

[Grahame Hutchison]

VH-YFI DJ0912 03/04/2012 08:53 Virgin Australia B737-8FE Brisbane-Sydney

[Rowan McKeever]

Morning All

flightaware.com and skyliner-aviation.de have been reporting N904ME (to become VH-NXR) on delivery MIA-BIL-ANC as Southern Cross 918. Arrived into ANC on Monday afternoon (their) local time. Hasn't shown up with a departure out of ANC though (ANC is not showing any B717 departures at all).

Cheers
Rowan

[robert J]

Virgin Australia A330 on its way to you guys, passed along the english channel not so long ago....


Airbus A330 -243 1293 VH-XFC Virgin Australia delivery 05-06apr12 TLS-KUL-SYD ex F-WWYU


http://airbusdeliveries.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/airbus-updates-no680.html

[Rowan McKeever]

Morning All!

N904ME (VH-NXR) is either in, or on its way to, Magadan in Russia continuing its delivery to Oz as SXA918.

Have a great Easter weekend!!

Cheers
Rowan

[Stefan Perkas]

Looks like VH-XFC is scheduled to go KUL-MEL today, arriving into Melbourne at 2320 tonight.

VH-NXR should be in the country on Sunday. It's 1st Aussie port is Darwin, then it will head down to Adelaide for pre-service checks.

[Rowan McKeever]

Hey Stefan, yeah guessed VH-NXR would probably be heading to ADL for pre-service. Still reg'd N904ME from the info I've seen on the web, presumably until after pre-service. In any case, it landed at DRW at 6.35pm local time today... so given ADL curfew it'll probably head down there tomorrow. Will be interesting to see whether it's still with Southern Cross Aviation until it hits ADL or whether Cobham will take it from DRW themselves?

[Gerald A]

VH-VZZ
L/N 4010
C/N 39445
Lsd CIT Leasing
Hex 7C6DED
Selcal CS - HK

[robert J]

following is currently at doncaster airport in the UK being painted and made ready for delivery to its new owner in australia, dont know where its going at the moment im afraid but one for you all to look out for soon

Citation CJ2

VH-IYG - (ex TC-VYN c/n 525A-0236)

reg is currently applied under the wing only as the new owner cant decide if he wants it on the tail or engines. australian flag now on tail instead of turkish one.

best wishes

[Peter S.]

VH-VZZ
L/N 4010
C/N 39445
Lsd CIT Leasing
Hex 7C6DED
Selcal CS - HK

Believed to be named "Walpole" - Albany & Denmark region of WA.

[Zac M]

What is happening with VH-FVU, it appears it is still yet to enter service.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHFVU

Also on the topic of ATRs, when is the first ATR72-600 due for Virgin/Skywest?

[Grahame Hutchison]

From Puget Sound ...


VH-VZZ B737-838 Qantas First Flight
L/N 4010 C/N 39445
Dep RNT 10:28 PDT Arr BFI 12:36 PDT via MWH
BOE057 Hex 7C6DED SELCAL CS-HK

[lloyd fox]

Zac interesting question re the the 5th ATR and the 6th which had it's ferry flight terminated.

:o

[Rowan McKeever]

FVX's ferry flight was terminated??? What's the story there Lloyd???

Seems odd with FVU that they'd fly it BNE-CBR one day then CBR-BNE the next, nothing between or immediately surrounding it. It's almost like they're "route proving" (albeit without simulating a normal turnaround) but surely they wouldn't be that stupid!? Would they...???

[Paul f.]

The next VA A330 VH-XFD is being delivered to SYD.

[Michael Mak]

Does anyone know when VH-XFC will enter service? It's been delivered for 2 weeks now.

[Robert M]

First Hawaiian A330 will arrive Sydney tonight on schedule at 19:20. Aircraft operating the flight is N385HA - newest (currently - there are 2 more being delivered this month) in the fleet.

R

[Rob R]

CASA have put the brakes on Skywest adding more aircraft to their AOC.

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

Skyliners is reporting that new Virgin Australia A330-200 VH-XFD is to begin its delivery flight tomorrow 26/4/12. It is showing TLS-KUL-SYD (Same as XFC). So not sure if it will go to Sydney or MElbourne like XFC did.

[lloyd fox]

Hi Stefan,

Well this one is showing into SYD appears correct.;)

VBH 9086 27 APR arr SYD at 0700

[Sarah C]

VH-VZZ is on its way to HNL as we speak as QF6024.

[Grahame Hutchison]

From Puget Sound ...


VH-VZZ B737-838 Qantas Delivered
L/N 4010 C/N 39445
Dep BFI 10:31 PDT ETA HNL 13:21 HST
QFA6024 Hex 7C6DED SELCAL CS-HK

[Andrew Coggan]

VH-XFD passing the over the west coast of Greece at FL370.

[Peter Agatsiotis]

VH-XFD arrived just before 7am

[lloyd fox]

I was pretty close Peter was the flight number correct as well ??

[Peter Agatsiotis]

yep pretty close Lloyd, flight number as per previous post was VBH9082.