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This story from Australian Aviation's archives is from 2015, when Tom Ballantyne wrote about being on Qantas's record making London-Sydney flight in 1989.
A second-hand Boeing 747-400 that was previously flown by the Japanese government has been put on sale for US$28 million.
Qantas entered the jet era on July 29 1959 when a Boeing 707-138B took off from Sydney bound for San Francisco via Nadi in Fiji and Honolulu, Hawaii.
Caboolture Airfield has played host to a gathering of about 40 De Havilland aircraft, which began arriving on July 26 and continued across the weekend.
Air Mauritius has become the first airline to fly the Airbus A330-900 to Australia with the inaugural service touching down in Perth on July 24 2019.
A British Airways Boeing 747 decked out in a retro livery has flown with the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team at the Royal International Air Tattoo.
