Qantas Freight B763 VH-EFR

QFA7533/7531 VH-EFR B763 Auckland-Cairns-Hong Kong


VH-EFR B763 at Cairns.



Eurocopter AS-350 PK-URD

PK-URD AS35 from north-Cairns

Alliance Fokker 50 Charter

UTY4460/4462 VH-FKV F50 Brisbane-Cairns-Horn Is.


VH-FKV F50 at Cairns.



Lynden Air Cargo C-130 N403LC

LYC560 N403LC C130 Cairns-Port Moresby-Momote, was Port Moresby-Cairns 5/6/2014.


N403LC C130 at Cairns.



Jetstar to Start Boeing 787 Cairns – Japan Service from mid-August 2014

Per Airline Route website:
http://airlineroute.net/2014/06/04/jq-cns-aug14/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+airlineroutenews+%28Airline+Route%29

Jetstar Airways continues to expand Boeing 787 operations, which see the Dreamliner begin operating service between Cairns and Japan, from mid-August 2014. Boeing 787 operation is subject to Government Approval.

eff 14 Aug 2014 Cairns - Tokyo Narita

JQ25 CNS 1220 - 1845 NRT 788 145
JQ25 CNS 1335 - 2000 NRT 788 x145

JQ26 NRT 2055 - 0520+1 CNS 788 145
JQ26 NRT 2115 - 0540+1 CNS 788 x145

eff 05 Sep 2014 Cairns - Osaka Kansai

JQ15 CNS 1255 - 1950 KIX 788 x36
JQ16 KIX 2025 - 0435+1 CNS 788 x36

File Picture - VH-VKA B788 at Cairns.

Vincent Aviation Saab 340 heads off-shore

VH-VNY SF34 Townsville-Faleolo-(Hilo)

File Picture - VH-VNY SF34 at Townsville, Photo by Dave.

Central Aviation Cheyenne P2-OMH

P2-OMH PAY2 Mt Hagen-Cairns

P2-OMH PAY2 at Cairns.

China United Airlines CRJ-700 B-4064

B-4064 CRJ7 Essendon-Cairns-Darwin-Kota Kinabalu

B-4064 CRJ7 at Cairns.

Vincent Aviation Saab 340 VH-VNY ferry flight

VH-VNY SF34 Darwin-Townsville

File Picture - VH-VNY SF34 at Townsville, Photo by Dave.

SIL Aviation Kodiak P2-SIB

P2-SIB KODI Cairns-Port Moresby-Aiyura, was Port Moresby-Cairns 3/6/2014.

P2-SIB KODI at Cairns.

Kingair N5021C

N5021C BE20 Denpasar-Darwin-Cairns

Gulfstream IV N617XT

N617XT GLF4 Cairns-Shenzhen, was Sydney-Cairns 2/6/2014

N617XT GLF4 at Cairns.

Beechcraft Kingair 300 Demonstrator N871EU moves south

N871EU BE30 (Townsville local flight) and -Townsville-Brisbane, was Cairns-Townsville 2/6/2014.

N871EU BE30 at Townsville, Photo by Dave.

Airlines PNG Dash 8 P2-MCW arrives for maintenance

TOK866 P2-MCW DH8A Port Moresby-Cairns

File Picture - P2-MCW DH8A at Cairns.

Atlas Air B747-400 Freighter drops-in!

GTI5446 N498MC B744 enroute Honolulu-Perth diverted to Cairns due fog at Perth early this morning, the aircraft then continued onto Perth shortly after. However due to weather in Perth N498MC diverted to Alice Springs.

File Picture - N409MC B744 at Cairns.

Beechcraft Kingair 300 Demonstrator N871EU

N871EU BE30 Bankstown-Cairns

N871EU BE30 at Cairns.

Wanda Group Gulfstream 550 B-8122

B-8122 GLF5 Cairns-Canberra, was Beijing-Cairns 31/5/2014.

FNQ Yestayear Images - May 1993

South Pacific DC-3 VH-EDC conducted a round Solomons/PNG Air Safari during the month visiting Honiara, Munda, Rabaul, Kavieng, Momote, Madang and Cairns arriving at the latter on May 27.  It was caught here on its stop at Madang.  It departed for BNE on the 28th.

Rare Irish registered DC-8-63 EI-TLD of Translift (Ireland) stopped over on a round the world Air Cruise with 150 tourists.  It arr from MEL 27th May and dep out to Fiji a few days later. The company also operated at the time a fleet of A320's on European IT charters.

RAAF B707 (A20-624) conducted a series of touch and goes at CNS on May 22 using c/s 'Windsor'.

On May 25th PNG's largest commuter airline TALAIR ceased operations.  It operated a fleet of Twin Otters and Banderiantes.  The aircraft were flown to Goroka where they were stored pending sale.  Talair were no strangers to Cairns, operating charters from Port Moresby for years. This image was taken of the aircraft in storage at Goroka 10 days later in this OTT shot.
(Picture supplied)

Thanks to GAFLIKS for providing this Yestayear report.

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Palmer United Global Express M-ATAR

M-ATAR GLEX Coolangatta-Townsville-Coolangatta

M-ATAR GLEX at Townsville, Photo by Leroy.

M-ATAR GLEX at Townsville, Photo by Dave.

Lynden Air Cargo summary of recent movements

Lynden Air Cargo have concluded a busy month of movements into Cairns, here is summary of N403LC flights:

3/5/2014 LYC505 Port Moresby-Cairns
5/5/2014 LYC505 Cairns-Port Moresby
7/5/2014 LYC505/2050 Moro-Cairns-Port Moresby
8/5/2014 LYC520 Port Moresby-Cairns
9/5/2014 LYC520 Cairns-Port Moresby
17/5/2014 LYC534 Port Moresby-Cairns-Port Moresby
18/5/2014 LYC535 Port Moresby-Cairns
19/5/2014 LYC535 Cairns-Port Moresby
28/5/2014 LYC557 Port Moresby-Cairns
29/5/2014 LYC557 Cairns-Port Moresby
30/5/2014 LYC2051 Port Moresby-Momote-Port Moresby-Cairns
31/5/2014 LYC2051 Cairns-Port Moresby

N403LC C130 at Cairns.