Sunday, July 31, 2022

American Registered Bombardier Global 5000 Bizjet N2QE Calls into Hamilton Island Airport - Plus More!

On Sunday 31 July, American registered Bombardier BD-700-1A11 Global 5000 bizjet N2QE was noted visiting Hamilton Island Airport.

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It flew up from the Gold Coast and then later departed to Cairns.

While Bowenville (near Toowoomba) based Cessna 525 CitationJet CJ1+ bizjet VH-JSZ visited Rockhampton Airport from Archerfield.

Meanwhile, several light General Aviation (GA) aircraft were noted visiting the region, also on Sunday 31 July.

New South Wales-based Campbell Aviation PA-28-181 Cherokees VH-XCW, VH-XHE and VH-XGN - plus another PA-28-181 Cherokee VH-NRF - flew up from Archerfield to Gladstone Airport before then flying up to Proserpine (Whitsunday Coast) Airport.  They flew up from Bankstown via Tamworth the previous day and look to possibly be completing another tour of regional and remote Queensland having just completed one the last week.

UPDATE!  Up to and including Wednesday 3 August, all four Cherokees VH-XCW, VH-XHE, VH-XGN and VH-NRF flew around various places including Hamilton Island, Emerald, Longreach, Charleville, Bourke and Dubbo before returning to their Bankstown base.

New South Wales-based Cessna 182 VH-IQV flew up from the Sunshine Coast to Rockhampton Airport.

UPDATE!  On Tuesday 9 August, VH-IQV finally departed Rockhampton Airport for Moree and Albury.

Locally-based Beech C24R Sierra VH-ZYX flew back into Rockhampton Airport from Archerfield.  As posted below, it flew down there on Friday 29 July.

Bunderra Cattle Co (Rockhampton) Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage VH-KNV flew back into Rockhampton Airport from Barrow Creek.  It had flown out there from Rocky via Rolleston, Boulia and Alice Springs the previous day.

While, Beech A36 Bonanza VH-ILG flew into Emerald Airport from Cairns.

Charters Towers-based Piper PA-32R-301T VH-ASC looked to depart Emerald Airport for the North.

RDO Equipment Co. (ex Vanderfield) Pilatus PC-12/47 VH-WPH departed Longreach Airport for Archerfield and Toowoomba.  It had arrived two days prior from those places.

Fellow RDO Equipment (ex Vanderfield) Cessna 210N VH-JSC flew from Roma Airport to Toowoomba.

ZephAir Australia - Aircraft Charters Piper PA-31 Navajo VH-AYT visited Hamilton Island Airport from its Townsville base.

Ipswich-based Airborne P/L (Palm Lake Works) Pilatus PC-12/47E VH-VLQ was noted visiting Bundaberg Airport again from the Gold Coast.

And Victoria-based Flyers P/L Cirrus SR22 VH-IXB called into Biloela / Thangool Airport after flying up from Melbourne (Essendon) via Dubbo and Chinchilla Airports.

Sincere thanks to Sydney-based specialist aviation photographer Grahame Hutchison for allowing us to share this great photo of the Global 5000 bizjet at Sydney!

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  ©

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