Private American Registered Dassault Falcon 7X Bizjet N997X at Hamilton Island Airport - Plus More!

On Monday 26 August, private American registered Dassault Falcon 7X bizjet N997X flew South from Hamilton Island.   It looked to have arrived on Thursday 22 August after flying over from New Zealand and then up from the Sunshine Coast.

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The Falcon 7X seems to be based 'Down Under' with it spending a lot of time flying around both Australia and New Zealand.  It was reportedly re-painted and re-registered in mid-2023 after previously wearing the American Registration marking of N656FN.

While MT Air Charters / Pilatus Australia Pilatus PC-24 Super Versatile Jet VH-PIL departed Hamilton Island Airport for Bankstown.  It seems to have arrived from there last Friday 23 August.  VH-PIL then flew back up to Archerfield and then back up to Hamilton Island Airport before then flying down to Sydney.

Air Charter Services / Flight Options (Australia) Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 bizjet VH-VKX visited Hamilton Island Airport from Brisbane. 

McDermott Aviation Group / Machjet International Cessna 525A CitationJet CJ2 bizjet VH-SUY as "Machflight 41" flew up from the Sunshine Coast to Mackay Airport.  It then continued to Townsville and then Cairns.

And Metro Holdings Australia (Air Link - Dubbo) Textron Aviation (Cessna) 510 Citation Mustang bizjet VH-SQV visited Rockhampton Airport from the Sunshine Coast.

Meanwhile, also on Monday 26 August, Pilatus PC-12/45 VH-PID of Kelsall P/L (Aeronautics and Technology Holdings) arrived into Rockhampton Airport from the South. 

Queensland Police Service (QPS) / Queensland Government (State of Queensland) Textron Aviation B300C Super King Air 350 VH-8PD arrived into Rockhampton Airport from Cairns and then departed to Brisbane.  It returned North later. 

Fellow QPS B300C Super King Air 350 VH-8PE also arrived into Rockhampton Airport but from Mount Isa before it then too departed to Cairns.

And Southern Air Beech 1900C VH-VSO visited Moranbah Airport from Archerfield.  It appeared to fly up to Archerfield from Melbourne (Moorabbin) yesterday.

Sincere thanks to Sydney-based specialist aviation photographer Grahame Hutchison for allowing us to share this great photo!

Do check out more of Grahame's fantastic images on his well-known Sydney Airport based website http://www.16right.com/

Photo taken by Grahame Hutchison  ©