Friday, January 16, 2015

A duo of Qantas A330-200's visit Adelaide.

Qantas A330-200 VH-EBH arrived from Sydney at 14.00hrs as 'QF751'. The aircraft departed back to Sydney at 15.10hrs as 'QF756'.

This was EBH's 1st visit to Adelaide since it the aircraft's stopped serving Adelaide Airport when the aircraft operated the QF81/82 to Singapore service.

 
(Qantas A330-200 VH-EBN Touching down on Rwy.23 as 'QF697' from Melbourne) Photo by Stefan Perkas (Copyright 2015) 

(Qantas A330-200 VH-EBN Taxiing to the bay as 'QF697' from Melbourne) Photo by Stefan Perkas (Copyright 2015) 

Qantas A330-200 VH-EBN arrived from Melbourne at 19.10hrs as 'QF697'. The aircraft departed back to Melbourne at 20.15hrs as 'QF696'.

This was EBN's 1st visit to Adelaide since it operated a special 'QF581' flight routing Sydney-Adelaide-Perth flight on 10/12/13.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

AS Aviation Holdings Gulfstream 4 N716AS makes a visit. (1st Visit)

(AS Aviation Holdings LLC. Gulfstream 4 N716AS all locked up for its visit to Adelaide) Photo by Stefan P (Copyright 2015)

AS Aviation Holdings LLC. Gulfstream 4 N716AS arrived at 08.30hrs from Coolangatta. The aircraft dpearted the follwoing day (16/1/15) back to Coolangatta at  14.35hrs

This is the aircraft's 1st visit to Adelaide, it was also the 1st foreign registered bizjet to visit Adelaide in 2015.

Air Asia X A330-300 9M-XXV (1st Visit)

Air Asia X A330-300 9M-XXV arrived ex. Kuala Lumpur at 09.25hrs operating 'D7246'. The aircraft departed back to Kuala Lumpur at 11.20hrs operating 'D7247'.

This was XXV's 1st visit to Adelaide since the aircraft entered service on 25/12/14. This was also XXV's 1 and only visit to Adelaide before the airlines ceased services.

Monday, January 5, 2015

Air Asia X A330-300 9M-XXU (1st Visit)

Air Asia X A330-300 9M-XXU arrived ex. Kuala Lumpur at 09.15hrs operating 'D7246'. The aircraft departed back to Kuala Lumpur at 11.00hrs operating 'D7247'.

This was XXU's 1st visit to Adelaide since the aircraft entered service on 28/11/14.

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Hong Kong Jet A330-200 VP-CBE arrives (1st Visit)

(Hong Kong Jet A330-200 VP-CBE taxiing to the bay after arriving from Auckland) Photo by Stefan P (Copyright 2014)

Hong Kong Jet A330-200 VP-CBE arrived ex. Auckland at 10.40hrs using 'Victor Papa- Charlie Bravo Echo' as its callsign. The aircraft parked initially at bay 22 at the passenger terminal, before being towed around to bay 82 where it will presumably stay for the duration of its visit to Adelaide.

This is this aircraft's 1st visit to Adelaide, it is also the 1st visit of an A330 bizjet to visit Adelaide. This particular aircraft was originally built for Air Asia X to become 9M-XXI, however it waqs not taken up by the airline. It was then configured into a VIP aircraft and re-registered VP-CBE. This aircraft has been touring the region for the past 3 weeks. Originally arriving in Coolangatta from Manila on 7/12/14, the same evening it made the short hop to Brisbane Airport where it would stay until 14/12/14 when it would depart to Sydney. After spending a week in Sydney it departed to Auckland. 

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

RLB Holdings Falcon 900 N610RL (1st visit)

(RLB Holdings Dassult Falcon 900 N610RL parked at Adelaide Airport on a gloomy Christmas Day in Adelaide) Photo by Stefan P (Copyright 2014)

RLB Holdings Dassult Falcon 900 N610RL arrived ex. Kingscote at 15.00hrs,. After spending Christmas in Adelaide the aircraft departed to Kingscote on 26/12/14 at 09.40hrs.

This was the F900's 1st visit to Adelaide. The aircraft is scheduled to depart Kingscote for Sydney at 11.00hrs

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Jetstar Airways A320 VH-VFY (1st Visit)

(Jetstar Airways A320-232(WL) VH-VFY arriving from Coolangatta as 'JQ455' for the 1st time into Adelaide) Photo by Stefan P (Copyright 2014)

Jetstar Airways A320-232(WL) VH-VFY arrived ex. Coolangatta at 19.15hrs as 'JQ455' and departed back to Coolangatta at 19.55hrs as 'JQ452'.

This was the aircraft's 1st visit to Adelaide. VFY was delivered to Jetstar on 8/12/14 and entered service on 12/12/14.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

RDC Marine Gulfstream 4 N5RD visits Adelaide (1st visit)

(RDC Marine Gulfstream 4 N5RD parked at Adelaide Airport) Photo by Stefan P (Copyright 2014)

RDC Marine Gulfstream 4 N5RD arrived from Nadi, Fiji at 15.00hrs. The aircraft overnight and depared the following day to Sydney at 18.30hrs,

This is the 1st visit of this registration to Adelaide, the actual frame has visited Adelaide before when it was based in Australia under its previous registration VH-TGG which it carried from 1999 to 2004