Qantas will donate its first Boeing 747-400, known as City of Canberra, to the Australian Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) in...
The Boeing 747-400 registered "VH-OJA" was delivered to Qantas on 11 August 1989 and made its debut flight on 16 August 1989 from London to Sydney. The flight blazed its way in to the record books for the longest non-stop commercial flight from London to Sydney in 20 hours, 9 minutes and 5 seconds, a record that still stands.
Over the past few years, Qantas has been gradually retiring its older B747s. Nine of its newest jumbos, the last of which was delivered in 2003, have been refurbished and will continue flying into the future.
Since 2008, the Qantas Group has taken delivery of almost 150 new aircraft, lowering its fleet age to an average of just over seven years.
The aircraft will join an impressive lineup of famed aircraft now located at HARS including a Lockheed Super Constellation, Catalina, Douglas DC3 and DC4 and a Desert Storm US Army Cobra.
The aircraft has been in service for 25.3 years and flew 13,833 flights carrying 4,094,568 passengers.
The aircraft has flown nearly 85 million kilometres, which is equivalent to 110.2 return trips to the moon
