The aircraft to be leased is ex HKE, and is currently in the HKE hangar. There are a team of Airnorth maintenance and enginering people in Honk Kong right now.
The aircraft lease is linked to a ten year contract with Macarthur River Mine, in other words, the customer is underwriting the cost. (This has been announced publicly, so no secret there).
Miffy ex NJS is leading the AOC project (and he has doen this lots of time before). They also have Maint Controller ex NJS (who has lots of jet / AOC / CASA experience).
The aircraft is due in to commercial service in October. Ferry planned ex HKE end of June. Project started over a year ago.
No where near the same scenario as XR "Airbuses", which I am sure are not even in the container yet.