September 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.

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

Emirates took delivery of A380 A6-EEK on Friday 30/8/13. It will make its 1st visit to to Melbourne tomorrow operating EK406/407.

[lloyd fox]

Our Airline 737-300 VH-PNI made it's delivery flight to BNE yesterday after spending several months in MEL getting painted and maintenance done.

[Greg Hyde]

From Jetstar news 04/09/2013

JetStar A320SL VH-VFP made its first flight from Finkenwerder today wearing test registration D-AXAA.

[Ian Gains]

VT-ANN 787-8 Air India has entered service & is currently on the way to London-Heathrow. It should appear on AIC312/1 soon.

[Rowan McKeever]

According to Skyliner, next QLink Q400 (cn 4449, C-GVRK) is on delivery from Canada. Seems like it will be VH-LQL?

[lloyd fox]

C-GVRK arrived BNE yesterday am on delivery.It appears as though BNE will once again do the pre service maintenance after CBR did the last 3 or 4.

[Rowan McKeever]

What's involved in the pre-delivery maintenance work Lloyd?

[Zac M]

All the seats get removed and recovered, carpet replaced, unsure of the rest.

[Rowan McKeever]

Wow, really!? Even though it's brand new (although I realise this particular aircraft was displayed at an airshow somewhere)