New QantasLink Dash-Q400 Next Gen VH-84G (ex C-GWEO) First Revenue Flight into CQ at Bundaberg Airport

On Thursday 19 June, recently delivered QantasLink Dash-8-Q400 VH-84G completed its first ever revenue flight, and it happened to be into CQ, with it touching down at Bundaberg Airport as QLK2320/1 from and back to Brisbane.

It then completed a run to Hervey Bay (Fraser Coast) Airport also from and back to Brisbane.  VH-84G looks to be due to complete flights into Hervey Bay and Bundaberg Airports again on Friday 20 June.

The second-hand Dash-8-Q400 is the fifth of 12 (or 14) aircraft that the Qantas Group has purchased from Canadian operator WestJet Encore. VH-84G previously operated as C-GWEO and operated with the airline from February 2014 until April 2023.

The Dash-8 arrived into Australia via Brisbane on Saturday 7 June, still wearing its Canadian registration marking of C-GWEO, completing a delivery flight from Canada across the Pacific.

It was promptly placed on the Australian Aircraft Register and also given the name 'Armidale'.

Photos taken by Liam Nash, Darcy Stevens and Tim Martin  ©