Monday, November 3, 2025

Exercise Wallaby 2025 - Royal Brunei Airlines Boeing B787-8 Dreamliner V8-DLB First Visit This Year as V8-DLA and V8-DLD Return to Rockhampton Airport

On Monday 3 November, what we believe were the final heavy jet passenger flights in support of the Singapore Armed Forces Exercise Wallaby 2025 (XWB25) took place with a pair of Royal Brunei Airlines Boeing B787-8 Dreamliners calling into Rockhampton Airport - including one for the first time during the entire exercise making all five of the fleet to visit in 2025!



B787-8 Dreamliner V8-DLB was spotted making its first appearance into Rockhampton Airport in 2025, arriving from Brunei as RBA4295 and then departing to Singapore's Changi Airport and then back to Brunei as RBA4296/8.

Also visiting on Monday was V8-DLA which arrived from Singapore as RBA4283 and also departed to Singapore and Brunei but as RBA4284/6.

V8-RBA also visited Rockhampton Airport from Singapore on Saturday 1 November as RBA4279/80 and Sunday 2 November as RBA4281/2 after starting this final 'wave' of flights on Friday - as posted below!

On Saturday 1 November, V8-DLD returned to Rockhampton Airport for its final visit, touching down from Singapore as RBA4291 and departing to Singapore and Brunei as RBA4292/4.  It too had initially visited on Friday.

That now sees the end of the passenger charter flights in support of Exercise Wallaby 2025 with only the Antonov AN-124 set to return in the coming days to collect the four The Republic of Singapore Air FOrce (RSAF) Boeing AH-64D Apache helicopters.

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Sincere thanks to local plane spotter Scott H for allowing us to share these great photos!

All photos taken by Scott Harris  ©

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