VH-BZI and NOA are owned by Nordstrom Pty Ltd, address is the AN building in Melbourne. Along with other AWAS acft they have disappeared and reappeared on the AUS register over a number of years of flying for Air Vietnam and others. In fact I am sure Nordstrom have also recruited crews to fly AWAS acft since the dreaded year **89. Do Nordstrom own the local AWAS AOC? Perhaps this mean QF have bought Nordstrom from Smith Barney, the owners of AWAS? This would better explain the purchase of the operating company, rather than saying QF have bought AWAS. They have actually bought one of it's subsidiaries.