Australian Country Choice Properties (Brisbane) Textron (Cessna) 680A Citation Latitude Bizjet VH-ACC Calls into Proserpine (Whitsunday Coast) Airport - Plus More!

On Friday 22 September, Australian Country Choice Properties / Aero Corporate Charters P/L (Brisbane) Textron (Cessna) 680A Citation Latitude bizjet VH-ACC was photographed at Proserpine (Whitsunday Coast) Airport after it flew up from Archerfield via Warwick.  

During the afternoon, it returned to these places.

UPDATE!  This was the last time we would see the sleek Citation Latitude bizjet in Central Queensland with it cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register in February 2024 and it being placed on the American Aircraft Register as N680LF.

While Air Charter Services / Flight Options (Australia) Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 bizjet VH-VKX arrived into Hamilton Island Airport from Cairns before later departing to Brisbane.  It had earlier flown up to Cairns from the capital.

McDermott Aviation Group / Machjet International Cessna 525A CitationJet CJ2 bizjet VH-SUY as "Machflight 41" flew up to Hamilton Island Airport from the Sunshine Coast.  It then flew down to Brisbane before returning to the Sunny Coast.

And Cirrus Design Corp. SF50 Vision Jet wearing the American registration marking of N616TS was spotted again visiting Gladstone Airport as it returned from Hamilton Island Airport.  It then continued down to Coffs Harbour.

N616TS also passed through Gladstone Airport heading up to Hamo last Thursday 14 September - see Blog post below!

Meanwhile, also on Friday 22 September, Machjet (Machjet International) Beech B200C King Air VH-PUY as "Machflight 121" arrived into Rockhampton Airport from the Labona Station Airstrip within Adani Australia's (Bravus Mining & Resources) Carmichael Coal Mine site before then departing to Cairns.

Gulf Coast Aviation Cessna 206 VH-KQM departed Emerald to Ingham and then Vanrook Station.  It looks to have flown down from Far North Queensland the previous day.

Microflite Pilatus PC-12/47E VH-8MF departed the Whitsunday Airport at Shute Harbour for the Sunshine Coast and Mildura before then flying back up to Shute Harbour.  It had arrived at the start of the week form Melbourne (Moorabbin), Tooradin and the Gold Coast.

Hughes Aviation (Hughes Pastoral Group) (Gympie) Pilatus PC-12//47E NGX VH-8HP flew up from Keeroongooloo to Bundaberg Airport and then Mackay Airport. 

Aerometrex (South Australia) Cessna 421B Golden Eagle VH-ECF flew out of Rockhampton Airport to the West and back on a survey flight.

Airborne Research Australia Diamond HK-36 TTC-ECO Motor Glider VH-EOS looked to depart Middlemount Aerodrome and complete aerial survey work near Moranbah.  VH-EOS looked to originally arrive in the area from Adelaide at the start of the month.

Townsville Airlines Beech 1900D VH-JYA arrived into Rockhampton Airport from Cairns and then departed to Brisbane. Later it arrived back into Rockhampton Airport from Brisbane before then continuing to Townsville and back to Cairns. 

Stirling Helicopters Piper PA-23-250 Aztec VH-EQD arrived into Rockhampton Airport from Archerfield and then departed to Toowoomba and then back to Archerfield. 

While Stirling Helicopters Eurocopter AS.350BA Squirrel VH-WHW "Firebird 421" operated water bombing on a fire in the Berserkers. 

Later, VH-WHW "Firebird 421", was joined by locally-based both R-Mach Aviation Cessna 185A Skywagon VH-YME as "Firespotter 404" and Ayres S2R Turbine Thrush VH-NFF as "Bomber 407", all fighting a bushfire in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area (SWBTA).

Victorian-based Agair Logistics P/L Gulfstream American Corporation 695A Jetprop Commander 1000 VH-HPY as "Birddog 370" flew up from Toowoomba to the fire in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area but halfway up, was re-tasked to the Blackdown Tableland and Carnarvon area before later returning to Toowoomba. 

And Hinterland Aviation completed a swap of aircraft operating Fly-in Fly-out (FIFO) charter flights out of Rockhampton Airport with Cessna 208 Caravan VH-CVN departing to the Labona Station Airstrip within Adani Australia's (Bravus Mining & Resources) Carmichael Coal Mine site as HND3350 and then Townsville as HND2251.  While fellow Cessna 208 Caravan VH-LZK flew down to Labona from Townsville as HND2250 and then across to Rockhampton Airport as HND3351.

Finally, also on Friday 22 September, Alliance Airlines Fokker F-100 VH-XWR as UTY550 arrived into Longreach Airport from Brisbane.

UPDATE!  On Sunday 24 September, VH-XWR returned to Brisbane from Longreach Airport as UTY551.

Photo taken by 'AC' and Jamie C  ©