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The City of Canberra, registered VH-OJA and named after Australia's capital city, was the first Boeing 747-400 delivered to Qantas. [note 1] It was not modified for the flight in any way – such as by the installation of extra fuel tanks – but some items of equipment were removed from the galleys and cargo compartments to save weight.
Boeing 747-438: Operator. Qantas: Registration. VH-OJH: Type. Photograph: Description: English: The good old days with 3 B747s from the East adorning a recently ...
A Boeing 707 and Boeing 747-200 at Longreach's Qantas Founders Outback Museum. Qantas has had a varied fleet since the airline's inception. Following its foundation shortly after the end of the First World War, the first aircraft to serve in the fleet was the Avro 504K, a small biplane.
A Qantas Boeing 747 flew over Sydney for the final time on July 13 ahead of the plane’s retirement from the airline fleet.Qantas announced on July 6 it would operate three farewell flights for ...
747-121 September 30th, 1968 February 9th, 1969 April 6th, 1995 Boeing: Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington. On static display Nicknamed City of Everett [21] N747GE /N744PA: 747-121 1969 1970 January 25th, 2017 General Electric; Pan Am; Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona. On static display [22] N601US 747-151 November 7th, 1969 1970 1999
Qantas Flight 30, on 25 July 2008, a Boeing 747-438 operated by Qantas, construction number 25067, registration VH-OJK, was a scheduled flight from London Heathrow to Melbourne with a stopover in Hong Kong. The flight was interrupted on the Hong Kong leg by an exploding oxygen tank that ruptured the fuselage just forward of the starboard wing root.
Qantas Airways Ltd chief executive Alan Joyce signed the carrier's last Boeing Co 747 jet at Sydney airport on Wednesday, shortly before it was due to fly to the Mojave Desert for a retirement ...
The 747-400ERF entered service with Air France in October 2002, while the 747-400ER entered service with Qantas, [189] its sole customer, in November 2002. In January 2004, Boeing and Cathay Pacific launched the Boeing 747-400 Special Freighter program, [ 190 ] later referred to as the Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF), to modify passenger 747 ...