Navair Flight Operations Embraer EMB-500 Phenom 100 Bizjet VH-LXZ "Navair 131" Calls into Mackay Airport - Plus More!

On Wednesday 8 March, Navair Flight Operations Embraer EMB-500 Phenom 100 bizjet VH-LXZ as "Navair 131" visited Mackay Airport from Bankstown and Cessnock.

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While McDermott Aviation Group / Machjet International Cessna 525A CitationJet CJ2 bizjet VH-SUY visited Emerald Airport from the Sunshine Coast and Archerfield. 

Avcair (Avgunn) LearJet 60 bizjet VH-ILJ flew up from Brisbane to Mackay Airport before then calling into Bundaberg Airport and Gladstone Airport before returning to Brisbane.

And overnight and in the wee small hours of Wednesday 8 March, LifeFlight (Aeromed) Canadair CL-600-2B16 Challenger 604 bizjet VH-OFB "Ambulance 624" was noted visiting Rockhampton Airport.  It arrived from Townsville and later departed to Brisbane.

Meanwhile, also on Wednesday 8 March, Nebrean P/L Hawker Beechcraft B200GT Super King Air 250 VH-JHP was noted visiting Rockhampton Airport.  It looked to arrive from Toowoomba and Orange before later departing to Tennant Creek. 

UPDATE!  On Thursday 9 March, VH-JHP was photographed above arriving back into Rockhampton Airport from Tennant Creek before it then departed to Orange and back to Toowoomba.

And Link Airways (Corporate Air / Vee H Aviation) Cessna 441 Conquest VH-VEY flew up from Brisbane to the Newlands Coal Mine site before then flying down to Rolleston Aerodrome and Emerald Airport.

UPDATE!  On Thursday 9 March, C441 VEY departed Emerald Airport for Rolleston Aerodrome and then Newcastle (Williamtown). 

Finally, also on Wednesday 8 March, Qantas Freight / Pionair Australia BAe 146-300(QT) VH-SQR called into Rockhampton Airport from Brisbane as QFA7421.  It later returned to the capital but as QFA7424. 

It also looks like VH-SQR called into Mackay Airport on Tuesday 7 March, arriving from Brisbane as QFA7298 and departing to Cairns as QFA7299.

Photos taken by 'JM' and John Lee  ©