As we've mentioned numerous times, Virgin Australia operate jet aircraft into Gladstone Airport every evening on scheduled services from and back to Brisbane. Most services are operated by Embraer E-190 jets, however on the odd occasion, Virgin have substituted a larger Boeing B737-800 jet onto the run.
On Tuesday 27 August, Boeing B737-800 VH-BZG operated the evening VOZ1717/1716 service into Gladstone Airport. Local plane spotter Michael F was on hand to capture some stunning night time shots of the big jet arriving and departing.
As shown below, VH-BZG joined Virgin Australia Regional Airlines ATR 72-500 VH-FVM on the Gladstone Airport apron. VH-FVM was all closed up for the night and was due to depart early on Wednesday.
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.
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All photos taken by Michael Fleetwood ©
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