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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.
On 1 June 1989, Qantas Flight 5, a Boeing 747-200 operating from Sydney to Singapore was cruising at 32,000 ft about 900 km south-east of Derby when it sharply climbed 1500 ft. The pilots disengaged the auto-pilot and the aircraft sharply descended 1500 ft. Unrestrained passengers hit the cabin's internal ceiling panels, leaving holes.
The Boeing 707-138 was a shorter version of the Boeing 707 that was ordered only by Qantas. The first Qantas jet service was on 29 July 1959 from Sydney to San Francisco via Nadi and Honolulu. On 5 September 1959 Qantas became the third airline to fly jets across the North Atlantic, after BOAC and Pan Am , operating between London and New York ...
Australia's Qantas Airways picked Airbus SE over Boeing Co as the preferred supplier for jets capable of the world's longest commercial flights from Sydney to London, dealing the U.S. planemaker ...
The recovery and consolidation of the airline industry since the recession has helped the sales of both Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and Airbus. But the momentum has started to shift the other way as ...
City names continued on all Qantas ordered and delivered Boeing 747, Boeing 747SP and Boeing 767 aircraft until 2008. Wunala Dreaming at Kai Tak Airport 1989 Boeing 747-400 – in addition to their usual city names, all Boeing 747-400 aircraft carry the word "Longreach" as part of the livery.
Qantas flight QF520 had to make an emergency landing in Sydney after a suspected engine failure. The plane was a Boeing 737-800, per the flight tracking websites Flightradar24 and FlightAware.
Qantas: July 30, 2003 Qantas: 6 Total 747-400 Series: 694 747-8F October 12, 2011 Cargolux: January 31, 2023 Atlas Air: 107 747-8BBJ February 28, 2012 Govt. of Qatar November 6, 2021 Govt. of Egypt 12 747-8I April 26, 2012 Lufthansa: July 7, 2017 Korean Air: 36 Total 747-8 Series: 155 Total Delivered (All series): 1,573