Alliance Airlines Fokker F-70 Jet VH-KBX Calls into Hamilton Island Airport on Closed Charter

Making a rare visit to Central Queensland on Saturday 22 May was Alliance Airlines Fokker F-70 jet VH-KBX.  It was noted arriving into Hamilton Island Airport on a closed charter flight as UTY572 from Melbourne and Sydney.

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It appears that the Fokker F-70 is staying for at least the night on Hamo.

UPDATE!  On Tuesday 25 May, VH-KBX departed Hamilton Island Airport for Sydney and Melbourne as UTY571.

As we've mentioned previously, the Fokker F-70 jet VH-KBX previously flew with the Royal Netherlands Air Force / Government of the Netherlands as a VIP transport aircraft and carried the Dutch registration marking of PH-KBX. It arrived into Brisbane in August 2017 and entered the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-KBX soon after. VH-KBX looked to finally enter service in May 2019.

Nice!

Photo taken by 'AC'  ©