Vh-bzg
 

Hi there

A future Virgin Blue B737 delivery will be registered VH-BZG, which was previously allocated to a Victorian farmers Piper Warrior.

BZG will stand for Brett & Zahra Godfrey.

The farmer swapped the rego with Virgin Blue for a couple of tickets to Canada & Alaska, while the co-owner of the Warrior is off to South Africa with the compliments of Virgin Blue.

The 737 will be named "Bretts Jet" the first male name on a Virgin Blue aircraft.

Cheers
Anthony T

Nice

I like the way DJ add all the personality to what is`usually nowadays a pretty corporate bottom line business (aviation and in particular, airlines) without the romance of yesteryear :cool:

http://australianaviation.com.au/bretts-big-farewell/


VH-BZG believed to be a B737-800 delivery in July


Good to see friendship overiding commercial rivalry


Attitudes change...some of my former football enemies are now my best friends

This aircraft was originally to become either VH-VUW or VH-VUX

VH-VBH is named after a male. Spirit of Salty.

VH-ZPK 'Aussie Rob' I would consider a male name.

Was wondering how they would pay off the Piper's owners for the rego, and good to see that they are placing a little bit of a personal touch to honour their ex-CEO.

Another example of swapping regos years ago was Ansett wanting to convince the owner of the Piper PA-32R VH-HYM (still current) to give up the rego for use on an A320.

It never happened. Obviously some free flights didn't work.

VH-BZG is now on the Aussie register

Anyone know anything more specific about the expected delivery date for the new bird?

From what I'm lead to believe, BZG won't be here in Oz til August.