March 2013 - New deliveries / first flights

[Moderator]

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

[LukeMcConville]

Skywest Airlines latest ATR 72 /VH-FVY ex. F-WWEJ is being delivered routing
TLS-HBE-AAN-NAG-PEN-HLP-PER Expected in PER Tuesday evening (05MAR) Left TLS - 02MAR

c/n 1073

[Steve S... 2]

Two Virgin Australia ATR72-600's finally entered service today 7/3/13:

VH-FVQ VA247 BNE-ROK
VH-FVR VA261 BNE-EMD

Regards,

Steve S

[Greg Hyde]

Skyliners is reporting a B717 move to Florida.

Boeing 717
-2BL
55177
5127
N409BC
Boeing Equipment Leasing
ferried 06mar13 VCV-VQQ prior delivery to?
ex XA-CLF

Is this a/c destined for Qlink

[Ian Gains]

9V-STT A330-300 SQ is on its delivery flight to SIN today, so it should be seen at the Oz airports that are served by SIA's 330's in the near future. Is it bad that it doesn't seem so long ago that this registration was on an A310-300 !

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

Due into Melbourne tomorrow at 1530 from Denpasar is B737-300 N325MS. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N325MS/history/20130315/2315Z/WADD/YMML.

According to skyliners this aircraft is being delivered to Melbourne All white and on delivery to a new airline. I assume it will have pre-Service maintenence in MEL.
As for the airline I would guess maybe a new immigration charter aircraft??

[lloyd fox]

VH-JFE Alliance F70 was doing it's first test flight yesterday at BNE in a hybrid livery of Air Panama cheatline and Alliance livery and titles.

Also another F70 VH-QQW was doing engine run ups.

[Rory Delaney]

Just to let everyone know,
Air Pacific (2nd) (Nadi), Fiji’s national airline, has formally rolled out its soon to be adopted new Fiji Airways identity with the delivery of its first new A330-200 aircraft. The carrier will officially adopt the Fiji Airways brand in June, the new A330 will begin revenue services on April 2. The aircraft was officially accepted by Nick Caine, Air Pacific’s CFO, at Airbus’ delivery center in Toulouse.

[Greg Hyde]

Jetstars latest VH-VFN had it's first flight as F-WWIP and then ferried to Finkenwerder/Hamburg.

Does anyone have c/n details ?

[Stefan Perkas]

Greg,

According to http://www.planespotters.net/Production_List/Airbus/A320/5566,VH-VFN-Jetstar-Airways.php the C/n is 5566, and this aircraft is to have sharklets on it.

[Greg Hyde]

thanks stefan,

I checked planespotters before I posted and it wasn't up yet.

[Ian Gains]

B-5917 A330-300 has been delivered to China Southern Airlines, their 1st new A330-300 for about 4 years. I've no idea of it's configuration, but it's one for SYD, BNE, PER & MEL to be aware of in case it shows up.

[Ian Gains]

9M-MTL A330-300 has been delivered to Malaysia Airlines, & is operating her 1st service to Australia tonight - inbound to MEL as MH129.

Thanks to Paul F for the information.

[Greg Hyde]

VH-XZD B737-838 Qantas First Flight
L/N 4400 C/N 39368 B737-838 VH-XZD QANTAS
Dep RNT 14:35 PDT Arr BFI 17:01 PDT via MWH
Call Sign BOE061 Hex Code 7C77F7

From Puget Sound

[Greg Hyde]

From Skyliners:

JetGo Latest is on the way:

Embraer 135 LR 145.713 VH-JZG JetGo Australia delivery 22-24mar13 ORK-MLA-SSH-DXB-MLE, N-reg ex N836RP

[Ian Gains]

A6-ENI 777-300ER Emirates is currently on delivery KPAE-DXB. Don't know whether it is a two or three class config yet.

A6-EFK 777-200LRF Emirates has flown, so expect it to be around in the next few weeks.

[Rowan McKeever]

Hi folks... according to wikipedia (yeah, I know!) QF and JQ each have 2 A330-200s on order? Is this correct or would that be a leftover of the recent deliveries such as EBQ, EBR, EBS, EBP and EBV? Can't imagine JQ having news A330s on order when it's about to start transferring the existing fleet to QF!

Cheers
Rowan

[Greg Hyde]

From Skyliners

Embraer 145 LR 145.00852 VH- JetGo ferried 25mar13 CLE-PUB-IGM, N-reg prior delivery may13 ex N852EC