On Thursday 6 March, Tropical Cyclone Alfred continued to bear down on the South East Queensland coast and as a result, flights in and out of the major Airports down there have all been cancelled causing most aircraft and helicopters to escape the region to safer places including into Central Queensland. And with the massive hangar and additional parking space available, many Alliance Airlines / QantasLink Embraer E-190 jets landed at Rockhampton Airport mostly from Brisbane for parking while the Cyclone passes.
VH-XVO arrived on the scheduled QFA1986 flight.
VH-UZI arrived as QFA6293.
VH-XVQ arrived as QFA6284 and was one of three to be parked on Taxiway Juliette.
VH-UZQ arrived as QFA6289.
VH-XVS arrived as QFA6281.
VH-XVX arrived as UTY6296/QFA1942 from Brisbane via Gladstone Airport.
VH-UZF arrived as QFA6288.
And Fokker F-70 VH-NKU flew from Brisbane to Emerald Airport as VOZ1265 then to Rockhampton Airport as UTY9820.
Plus QantasLink (Alliance Airlines) E-190 VH-UYR flew down from Townsville to Rockhampton Airport and then Brisbane as QFA6295 - presumably to transport crews back to Brisbane.
Meanwhile, also on Thursday 6 March, there was some movement with the McDermott Aviation Group / Machjet International Cessna Citation bizjets that arrived into Rockhampton Airport yesterday.
Cessna 525A Citation CJ2 VH-ZIY as "Machflight 74" departed to Brisbane. SUY was 74 yesterday and ZIY was 421. PIY was 41. And Cessna 525A CitationJet CJ2 VH-SUY as "Machflight 74" also departed to Brisbane
Finally, also on Thursday 6 March, Linfox Global Charter / Air National Australia Bombardier BD-700-1A10 Global 6000 bizjet VH-LEP flew up from Melbourne (Essendon) to Hamilton Island Airport before then flying down to Rockhampton Airport seemingly also for parking - UPDATED with photo!
UPDATE! On Saturday 8 March, VH-LEP departed Rockhampton Airport and returned to Hamilton Island Airport before then flying down to Melbourne (Avalon).
Fellow Linfox Express Charter / Air National Australia Canadair CL-600-2B16 Challenger 605 VH-LEF also arrived into Hamilton Island Airport but from Essendon via Sydney. It looked to remain parked on Hamo.
UPDATE! On Monday 10 March, VH-LEF departed Hamilton Island Airport for Sydney.
While new Pilatus Australia (South Australia) Pilatus PC-24 Super Versatile Jet VH-DMS looked to visit Mackay Airport from Cessnock.
And three Queensland Government (State of Queensland) aircraft looked to visit Rockhampton Airport.
Beech B300C Super King Air 350s VH-8PE and VH-8PH visited from Cairns and Brisbane respectively.
UPDATE! On Friday 7 March, VH-8PE arrived into Rockhampton Airport once again from Cairns and Townsville before later returning direct to Cairns.
Plus the Queensland Police Service (Airwing) (State of Queensland) Textron Aviation (Cessna) 208B Caravan VH-PQX also visited Rockhampton Airport from Cairns.
UPDATE! On Friday 7 March, VH-PQX visited Rockhampton Airport once again from Cairns.
Sincere thanks to the local plane spotters for their help in gathering information for this historic post - and of course for allowing us to share these great photos!
Photos taken by Nigel Tuckwood, Scott Harris, Steve Vit and Phil M ©
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