August 2012 - New Deliveries / First Flights etc

[Moderator]

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

[lloyd fox]

Virgin VH-YIL arrived BNE yesterday.

[Zac M]

LQK should ferry to CBR via Cairns tomorrow.

[Mark Grima]

Is LQK currently bearing Canadian registration C-GOAO? This was in the dash 8 hanger at Canberra this afternoon. It was parked next to LQJ.

Cheers

M

[Zac M]

Yep, that's correct. It arrived this afternoon.

[Stefan Perkas]

Morning all,

A couple of new deliveries that should be seen in Australia soon...

A380 9V-SKS was delivered to Singapore airlines on Wednesday. This should be seen in Sydney soon.

A330-300 9M-MTH was delivered to Malaysia Airlines on Wednesday as well. This should be seen in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth (& Sydney from March 2013).

[Peter S.]

Skyliner-aviation.de reports the delivery of:

ATR 72 -212A 1025 VH-FVP Skywest Airlines delivery 28-30delivery 04aug12 TLS-CAI-AAN, Virgin Australia cs jul12 BFI-HNL-MAJ-SPN ex F-WWLR

Australian Aviation reports the name as Wategos Beach.

[Peter Agatsiotis]

c/n 1029 VH-FVN should follow soon; AL has 'Whitehaven Beach' as its name.

These are the first Atr72-600's for Skywest/Virgin Australia if my maths are correct?

[Dom Fortey]

Thats correct these are the first 2 ATR72-600.

Dom,

[Stefan Perkas]

A330-300 9M-MTH was delivered to Malaysia Airlines on Wednesday as well. This should be seen in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth (& Sydney from March 2013).

9M-MTH entered service today 4/8/12, it operated MH139/138 to Adelaide.

[Dom Fortey]

Morning All

from Puget Sound

VH-YIO B737-8FE Virgin Australia Delivered
L/N 4132 C/N 38714 B737-8FE VH-YIO VIRGIN AUSTRALIA
Dep BFI 10:37 PDT ETA LIH 13:07 HST
Call Sign VBH9882 Hex Code 7C7AAE

Dom,

[lloyd fox]

VH-YIO landed BNE this arvo.

[Grahame Hutchison]

From Puget Sound ...

First of the XZ series aircraft.


VH-XZA B737-838 Qantas First Flight
L/N 4150 C/N 39367
Dep RNT 10:14 PDT Arr BFI 12:24 PDT via MWH
BOE058 Hex 7C77F4

[Bob C]

Hi Grahame

Interesting to see the -XZ series being applied to B737s as this block was allocated to the B787 many moons ago but the constant delays and decreasing numbers of available regos reguired that block to be allocated elsewhere.

So I wonder if the time has come for Austrlia to investigate new methods of allocating registrations - ie numbers and letters perhaps - ie VH-123QF or perhaps four letters - ie VH-XZAA ?

Cheers

Bob

[Rowan McKeever]

I wonder if the time has come for Austrlia to investigate new methods of allocating registrations

G'day Bob... with 1206 available marks (as of 8am today) I think the issue should be more about asking airlines why they feel it's necessary to have 'blocks' of registrations and why they can't simply cherry pick the marks they like from those available. And perhaps also taking back the marks allocated to aircraft that haven't flown for longer than 'x' amount of time (there was talk of that happening a few years ago).

[Grahame Hutchison]

From Puget Sound ...


VH-YIQ B737-8FE Virgin Australia First Flight
L/N 4156 C/N 38715
Dep RNT 13:44 PDT Arr BFI 15:53 PDT via MWH
BOE844 Hex 7C7AB0

[Steve S... 2]

That's funny - when I logged in to that Puget Sound website an hour ago, it had listed the new 738 VH-YIR as being line number 4172 and had undetaken its first flight.

It is now not on there.

[Steve S... 2]

New QantasLink DH8-400 VH-LQJ is apparently scheduled to enter service today as QF1484 CBR-SYD at 5.35pm.

[Max C]

Might've got out early, currently operating QLK472D CBR-SYD according to flightaware.

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

[Todd Milton]

VH-LQJ has left Canberra on QF1472. Was resting outside the hanger when I left the airport late this morning, and according to flight aware it will be arriving into Sydney at 13:32.

[Ian Gains]

Time for an Emirates update.....A6-EGV and A6-EGW have been delivered & are in service.

A6-EGX has just returned to Paine Field from Portland after painting, so delivery isn't too far away !

[Dom Fortey]

Hi All,

Virgin Australia VH-YIO B737-800 entered service this afternoon operating DJ613 BNE-MKY

Dom,

[Paul f.]

Time for an Emirates update.....A6-EGV and A6-EGW have been delivered & are in service.

A6-EGX has just returned to Paine Field from Portland after painting, so delivery isn't too far away !A6-EGW due into BNE tonight.

[Andrew Coggan]

ATR 75-600 VH-FVP is currently enroute Kalgoorlie-Boulder - Brisbane (Due 1:21AM) on delivery. FlightAware. (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHFVP)

[Brock Little]

VH-FVP entered service this afternoon currently on the return of a BNE-ROK-BNE rotation. It's also fitted with ADS-B so it's trackable on FR24 and the like.

[Dom Fortey]

Hi all,

To add onto what Brock said, it looks like it was more of a proving/ground staff training flight than a revenue flight as it operated BNE-ROK-HVB-ROK-BNE using VOZ834a,VOZ835a,VOZ833a and VOZ836A as its call sign instead of the usual BNE-ROK flight numbers.

Dom, :)

[Steve S... 2]

Looks like today VH-FVP is doing a BNE-PQQ-ABX-CBR proving flight.

[Grahame Hutchison]

Tuesday 14th August 2012
Airbus A320-232 231 VN-***5 Jetstar Pacific - At SIN 12Aug12, 9V-reg, Basic CS, WH Tail - Ex 9V-TAC

Thursday 9th August 2012
Airbus A320-232 5245 JA04JJ Jetstar Japan delivery 08Aug12 TLS-MCT Ex F-WWBY

Tuesday 7th August 2012
Airbus A320-232 2340 9V-TAD Jetstar Pacific at SIN 07Aug12 in Basic CS, White Tail Ex F-WWIY

[Zac M]

VH-FVP in Canberra
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7136/7830535304_228c4db7d3_b.jpg

[Zac M]

VH-LQK to enter service this morning as QF1460

[Grahame Hutchison]

From Puget Sound ...


VH-XZA B737-838 Qantas Delivered
L/N 4150 C/N 39367
Dep BFI 10:28 PDT Arr HNL 13:34 HST
QFA6024 Hex 7C77F4

[Andrew Coggan]

Qantas 738 VH-XZA currently enroute NAN-MEL tracking to the north east of Sydney with an arrival time in Melbourne of about 1745.

[Mick B]

Interesting to see the -XZ series being applied to B737s as this block was allocated to the B787 many moons ago but the constant delays and decreasing numbers of available regos reguired that block to be allocated elsewhere.

Given yesterday's extremely disappointing news, we now know why the -XZ regos won't be seen on a 787 for a while, if ever! :mad:

[Brian Wilkes]

VH-XZA might be the 737 to have all those names stuck on the side of aircraft!

[Peter S.]

From Puget Sound:

VH-YIR B737-8FE Virgin Australia First Flight
L/N 4172 C/N 39925 B737-8FE VH-YIR VIRGIN AUSTRALIA
Leased from Lombard Leasing
Dep RNT 09:50 PDT Arr BFI 12:04 PDT via MWH
Call Sign BOE837 Hex Code 7C7AB1

[Grahame Hutchison]

From Puget Sound ...


VH-YIQ B737-8FE Virgin Australia Delivered
L/N 4156 C/N 3871
Dep BFI 10:55 PDT ETA LIH 13:14 HST
VBH9882 Hex 7C7AB0

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

After being delivered on 21/7/12...

Jetstar's newest A320 VH-VFH finally entered service today...

Its 1st service was JQ735-736 MEL-LST-MEL. It is currently on its way back to MEL from OOL operating as JQ449, it went up to OOL as JQ440.