Isle of Man-registered Piaggio P-180 Avanti II M-ETAL Arrives into Hamilton Island Airport - Plus a few Weekend GA Visitors!

On Monday 1 July, Isle of Man-registered but Australian-based Piaggio P-180 Avanti II M-ETAL was noted arriving into Hamilton Island Airport.  It looked to fly up from the Sunshine Coast.

M-ETAL at Bundaberg Airport  (File photo)

M-ETAL appears to have flown to the Sunny Coast from Sydney over the weekend.

UPDATE!  On Wednesday 3 July, M-ETAL departed Hamilton Island Airport for Normanton.

Meanwhile, over the weekend, on Sunday 30 June, a couple of other small corporate turboprop aircraft were noted at remote parts with Pegasus Air Pilatus PC-12/47E VH-JMU flying into Barcaldine Airport from Bankstown.  It later departed to Dinah Island, Normanton and the Gold Coast.

While Austrek Aviation Beech B200 Super King Air VH-ZGD was noted visiting my local Clermont Aerodrome from its Toowoomba base.

Finally, back in the Whitsundays, also on Sunday 30 June, Guardian Offshore (of Darwin) Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) BO 105 S CBS - 4 helicopter VH-JYS was noted visiting Proserpine (Whitsunday Coast) Airport.

VH-JYS appears to be hangared at Townsville and has been seen also at Mackay Airport in recent months.

Of interest, VH-JYS was previously operated in the USA as N70EG and in the 1990s was used to complete radiological dust surveys over the Nevada nuclear test sites!  (The things you find with a little bit of research!)

Photos taken by Samuel Felgate and Leroy  ©