Air Charter Services / Flight Options (Australia) Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 Bizjet VH-VKX Calls into Hamilton Island Airport - Plus More!

On Monday 22 January, Air Charter Services / Flight Options (Australia) Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 bizjet VH-VKX flew up from Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast to Hamilton Island Airport.  It later returned to Brisbane.

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UPDATE!  On Tuesday 23 January, VH-VKX returned to Hamilton Island Airport, flying the opposite of Monday's flight - up there from Brisbane and back to the capital but via the Sunshine Coast.

And Air Gold Coast Cessna 525 Citation CJ1 bizjet VH-CDG visited Emerald Airport from Toowoomba-Wellcamp (where it appears to be based?).

Meanwhile, also on Monday 22 January, Southern Airlines (Moorabbin) Cessna 404 VH-TTZ departed Rockhampton Airport for Quilpie before later flying to Emerald and Mackay Airports and then back to Rocky.

It had flown into Rockhampton Airport from Normanton and Mareeba the previous day.

Brescon (Toowoomba) Beech B200 King Air VH-XDW arrived into Rockhampton Airport from Tooowoomba-Wellcamp and Thargomindah and then departed back to Wellcamp. 

Fellow Beech B200 King Airs VH-ZMW of Austrek Aviation and VH-ISS of Air Link, both flew up from Brisbane to Cairns together and this afternoon returned South to Bundaberg Airport.  VH-ISS departed to Archerfield and VH-ZMW to Toowoomba. 

Bayswater Road Aerial Surveys (former Hinterland Aviation) Cessna 404 Titan VH-TFO landed at Emerald Airport from Mareeba. 

UPDATE!  On Tuesday 23 January, VH-TFO departed Emerald Airport and continued to the South.

Of interest, a fellow former Hinterland Aviation (now registered to Angel Flight) Cessna 402C VH-TFK was noted flying down from Cairns to Emerald Airport and then Archerfield on Sunday 21 January.

And Link Airways (Corporate Air / Vee H Aviation) Cessna 441 Conquest VH-VEJ visited Rolleston Aerodrome from Brisbane and then returned back up to the Newlands Coal Mine Site near Collinsville.

Finally, it's worth mentioning that on Sunday 21 January, LifeFlight (Aeromed) Canadair CL-600-2B16 Challenger 604 bizjet VH-OFB "Ambulance 624" flew up from Brisbane to Proserpine (Whitsunday Coast) Airport and then Mackay Airport and up to Townsville.  While late on Saturday 20 January, it flew up from Brisbane to Barcaldine Airport and then to Rockhampton Airport and then back to Brisbane.

Photo taken by John Lee  ©