Cirrus Design Corp. SF50 Vision Jet N616TS Pops into CQ Airports - Plus More!

On Friday 4 July, Cirrus Design Corp. SF50 Vision Jet wearing the American registration marking of N616TS was noted passing through Gladstone Airport. It looked to fly up from Coffs Harbour to Gladstone Airport and then the Whitsunday Airport at Shute Harbour.  It later returned to Coffs Harbour direct.

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Queensland Government (State of Queensland) Beech B300 Super King Air 350i aircraft VH-8PF arrived into Rockhampton Airport from Cairns and Townsville and then departed back to Cairns.

The Queensland Government Airwing (State of Queensland) Raytheon B300 Super King Air VH-SGQ also called into Rockhampton Airport, arriving from Townsville and departing to Brisbane.

And Cirrus SR22 N64RU flew to Longreach Airport from Archerfield.

Finally, also on Friday 4 July, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Airbus A330-200 / KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) A39-004 as "Dragon 11" completed a missed approach at Rockhampton Airport.  It had earlier taken RAAF Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet jets "Sabre" and "Cannon" half way to RAAF Base Tindal then left them and turned to land at Townsville. Later it flew down to complete the missed approach at Rockhampton Airport and then onwards back to RAAF Base Amberley.

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