Wednesday, October 8, 2025

USA Registered Cirrus Design Corp SR22T N23JA Spotted at the Whitsunday Airport at Shute Harbour - Plus More!

On Wednesday 8 October, American-registered Cirrus Design Corp SR22T N23JA was spotted at the Whitsunday Airport at Shute Harbour.



It flew into Shute Harbour after flying across from Darwin and Normanton. It then flew down to the Gold Coast.  It appears N23JA arrived into Australia from overseas the previous day.

UPDATE!  Over the weekend, N23JA departed the Gold Coast and finished up at Ardmore in New Zealand.

Meanwhile, also on Wednesday 8 October, Seair Pacific / Istlecote Textron Aviation (Cessna) 208B Caravan VH-TLH flew up from Hervey Bay (Fraser Coast) Airport to Middlemount Aerodrome before then flying down to Maryborough Airport and then back to Hervey Bay Airport.

Kennedy Aviation / Kennedy Air-Ag Air Tractor AT-802A 'Fire Boss' water bombing aircraft VH-XAT as "Bomber 288" and VH-XAJ as "Bomber 455" landed at Bundaberg Airport flying up together from Watts Bridge.

ZephAir Australia - Aircraft Charters Piper PA-31 Navajo VH-AYT as 'ZD220' visited Clermont Aerodrome from Townsville.

ZephAir Australia Piper PA-34-220T Seneca VH-YSI as 'ZD440' has been operating out of Gladstone Airport.

Air Link (Dubbo) Beech B200 King Air VH-ISS flew into Mackay Airport from Cairns and then departed to Kowanyama and then back to Cairns.

And end of school holiday charter flights have starting ferrying students back to school from locations in Far North Queensland including National Jet Express (NJE) Dash-8-Q400 VH-8QA which arrived into Rockhampton Airport late on Tuesday as 'NJE443' arrived from Horn Island and Cairns.  On Wednesday afternoon, it departed Rocky back to Horn Island as 'NJE444'.

Photo taken by Lee Holloway  ©

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