Far North Queensland Skies: January 2015

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Saturday, 31 January 2015

FNQ Yestayear Images - January 1994

UZU Air, based in the Torres Straits purchased two BN-2 Islanders from Flight West. Here VH-XFF is pictured after coming out of the paint shop on the 17th, with the second example (VH-XFI) due to follow in to the shop on the 25th. This image was scanned from Aircraft Magazine, to which GAFLIKS had submitted the original shot taken.

Navy HS748 N15-710 'Shadow 5' based itself in CNS during the month to conduct several sorties to our North.

Navy HS748 N15-710

Rheims F406 Caravan 11 F-ODYZ of Aviazur, (now Air Loyaute) New Caledonia, overnighted on the 5th before continuing on to Noumea. This image also scanned (as per details XFF above).

Thanks to GAFLIKS for providing this Yestayear report.

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Thursday, 29 January 2015

Susi Air Cessna Caravan C208 PK-VVS

PK-VVS C208 Cairns-Merauke

PK-VVS C208 at Cairns.

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Global Express B-LRH

B-LRH GLEX Cairns-Coolangatta, was Hong Kong-Cairns 27/1/2015

Friday, 23 January 2015

Antonov Design Bureau An-124 UR-82027 passes through

ADB288F UR82027 A124 Perth-Cairns-Honolulu

UR-82027 A124 at Cairns, Photo by GAFLIKS.

Thursday, 22 January 2015

RAAF (Air Tahiti Nui) A340-300 F-OLOV Charter

ASY2 F-OLOV A343 Darwin-Townsville-Brisbane-Sydney, was Brisbane-Townsville-Darwin 20/1/2015

F-OLOV A343 at Townsville, Photo by Dave.

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Gulfstream 650 N515PL

N515PL GLF6 Cairns-Honolulu, was Sydney-Cairns 12/1/2015

Saturday, 10 January 2015

Aero Rescue Dornier 328 VH-PPV

RSCU441 VH-PPV D328 Port Moresby-Cairns, was Cairns-Port Moresby 8/1/2015

VH-PPV D328 at Cairns.

Pel-Air / Rex Saab 340 VH-ZRY

PFY9317 VH-ZRY SF34 Cairns-Mackay, was Townsville-Cairns 9/1/2015

VH-ZRY SF34 at Cairns.

Friday, 9 January 2015

MachJet International Beech Kingair VH-WJK

VH-WJK BE20 Port Moresby-Cairns-Port Moresby

VH-WJK BE20 at Cairns.

Two more Skytrans Dash 8's turn up!

Two more Skytrans Dash 8's arrived in Cairns this afternoon bringing the total number of Skytrans Dash 8's parked up at Cairns to 9.

VH-QQP DH8C Brisbane-Cairns
VH-QQN DH8C Brisbane-Cairns

VH-QQP DH8C and VH-QQN DH8C at Cairns.

Thursday, 8 January 2015

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Gulfstream IV HZ-MF5

HZ-MF5 GLF4 Hamilton Is.-Cairns-Denpasar

HZ-MF5 GLF4 at Cairns.

Chinese Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-200 B-3570

B-3570 CRJ2 Sydney-Cairns

B3570 CRJ2 at Cairns.

Noevir Aviation Cessna Citation Sovereign N680NA departs

N680NA C680 Cairns-Noumea

N680NA GLF4 at Cairns.

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Gulfstream IV HZ-MF5 passes through

HZ-MF5 GLF4 Denpasar-Cairns-Hamilton Is.

HZ-MF5 GLF4 at Cairns.

Pel-Air / Rex Saab 340 VH-EKD

PFY9326/9327 VH-EKD SF34 Brisbane-Cairns-Townsville

VH-EKD SF34 at Cairns.

Thomson Airways Charter Boeing 757 G-OOBF departs

TOM974 G-OOBF B752 Cairns-Siem Reap, was Apia-Cairns 5/1/2015

G-OOBF B752 at Cairns.

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

RAAF QF Boeing 747-400 Charter

ASY1 VH-OJM B744 Sydney-Brisbane-Townsville-Darwin-(Al Minhad Air Base)

VH-OJM B744 at Townsville, Photo by Dave.

Noevir Aviation Cessna Citation Sovereign N680NA

N680NA C680 Guam-Cairns

Monday, 5 January 2015

Atherton Aerodrome Report

During his holiday in Far North Queensland, Damian F of the CQ Plane Spotting Blog also spent some time in the Tablelands, specifically Atherton. Of course, he popped into Atherton Aerodrome (Jim McAuliffe Field) which is managed by the Tablelands Regional Council.

Atherton Aerodrome is predominantly a general aviation orientated airport with a large number of privately owned hangars. One of the prominent operators at Atherton is Tableland Air Services which operates both local scenic and crop spraying flights around the tablelands. During his visit, Damian spotted their two current crop-dusters in the form of Cessna 188/A1 VH-KQC and Air Tractor AT-602 VH-ODO.

Another hangar at Atherton Aerodrome with a wide variety of privately-owned light and ultralight aircraft is the Tableland Aero Services hangar. Also inside the hangar is a familiar helicopter to Damian in the form of AMT OH-58A VH-ABB. Damian reports he has noted VH-ABB at his 'home airport' in Clermont.

It was a pretty quiet day at Atherton, however, Damian was advised that the weekends 'come alive' with the local aviators coming to the Airport for a fly!

Thanks again to Damian from CQ Plane Spotting for this great report.
http://cqplanespotting.blogspot.com.au/

West Wing steps into remote services void left by Skytrans

As reported by the Cairns Post West Wing Aviation have filled the gap with the closure of Skytrans on Friday.

See Cairns Post Link - http://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/west-wing-steps-into-remote-services-void-left-by-skytrans/story-fnjpvlcp-1227174257245

Today the following was noted:

VH-SBM BE20 Cairns-Aurukun-Cairns
VH-MWQ BE20 Cairns-Coen-Lockhart River-Cairns
VH-XDW BE20 Cairns-Pormpuraaw-Kowanyama-Cairns
VH-XDY B190 Cairns-Bamaga-Cairns

VH-SBM BE20 at Cairns.

VH-XDY B190 at Cairns.

VH-MWQ BE20 at Cairns.

Sunday, 4 January 2015

Port Douglas & Paddy's Air Park report

Late late year, Damian F from the CQ Plane Spotting Blog travelled to Far North Queensland and spent some time at Port Douglas. From their landing sight near the Sheraton Mirage Resort at Port Douglas, Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Helicopters operates scenic flights over the Port Douglas area. Damian spotted Robinson R-44 VH-ESK early one morning preparing for a scenic flight.

Out on the Captain Cook Highway - heading North from Port Douglas - is Paddy's Air Park where GBR Helicopters parks their helicopters that are deployed from their Cairns base to Port Douglas each week. Parked at the Air Park later that day was VH-ESK, and it was joined by fellow R-44 VH-NOL and Bell 206 VH-IHT.

Paddy's Air Park also has three hangars that contain micro-lite aircraft that can also be seen in the skies over Port Douglas also operating scenic flights.