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[Ada Quonsett]

HeavyLift Cargo

'HeavyLift Cargo changed the registration of its Short Belfast from 9L-LDQ to RP-C8020 at Cairns on January 19. On January 22 the Belfast, which was operating as ‘Heavylift 201', departed for Johor Bahru where it picked up a load destined for Port Moresby and Mount Hagen. On January 28 the Belfast returned to its Cairns base from Lae.
727-51C RP-C8017 was test flown at Cairns on January 17 before the same day ferrying to Brisbane using the callsign ‘Romeo Papa Charlie'. On January 18 it departed Brisbane for Honiara, but instead of using a HeavyLift flight number it used the TransGlobal Airways flight number TCU925 and the callsign ‘Transglobal 925'.
(RP-C8017 was based in the Philippines at the former Clark AFB from June 17 to December 17 and while there it operated on lease to TransGlobal Airways.)
After over-nighting in Honiara the 727 continued to Auckland with the aircraft again using the callsign ‘RPC'. The final leg of the charter was operated from Auckland to Brisbane on January 20 and this time the 727 operated as flight TCU504 and used the callsign ‘Transglobal 504'.
727-51C 9L-LEK, which had been operating out of Brisbane, was ferried to Cairns as flight HVY100 on December 30. By the time this is read it is expected that the 727 will have changed its registration to RP-C8018.
HeavyLift Cargo was planning to take delivery of 727-227F RP-C8019 in Brisbane during March with the aircraft ferrying in from Roswell, New Mexico, where it had been in storage.'
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