Friday, May 23, 2014

A Few More Plane Spotting Photos from Rockhampton Airport

Local plane spotter Phil M has again sent through more fantastic photos from Rockhampton Airport of some of the many and varied aircraft to call in over recent days.


Virgin Australia Boeing B737-800 was photographed by Phil as recently operated a scheduled service into Rockhampton from Brisbane.



VH-BZG is a rather unique aircraft and registration in the Virgin Australia (and previously Virgin Blue) fleet. It was originally intended to be registered as 'VH-VUW', however at the announcement of the retirement of the original Virgin CEO Brett Godfrey, it took up the registration of VH-BZG (Brett [&] Zahra Godfrey) in honour of the retiring Virgin CEO and his wife.  VH-BZG also wears the name "Brett's Jet" in honour of Godfrey.




Also a recent visitor was QantasLink Dash-8-Q400 Next Gen VH-LQF.


This aircraft still wears additional titles highlighting the fact that QantasLink was the 'Regional Airline of the Year for 2012'.



Another QantasLink Dash-8-Q400 wearing special colours is VH-QOI.


VH-QOI still wears its bright 'Destination Tamworth' - Tamworth Country Music Festival colours.







Finally, Surveillance Australia / Australian Customs and Border Protection Service Dash-8-200 VH-ZZP was captured by Phil arriving into Rocky after completing an aerial surveillance sortie recently.





-ZZP still wears the older "Customs" titles, and spent the night parked on the Rockhampton Airport apron.


It later departed on another sortie.

Thanks to Phil for sharing these great images with us at CQ Plane Spotting!

All photos taken by Phil M  ©

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