Another one bites the Dust "Heavylift"

[Cravenmorehead]

Where was she bound for?
Is it for Tuna to Japan etc?

[falconx]

What's the reg?

[Cravenmorehead]

The DC-8 rego is OB-2059-P. Well that was what it was registered on the 20/10/2013. I think it's rego changed a few times over the last few months.
Was sitting at Pom Jacksons for about 5 months. Looked real nice. One day I will work out how to put photos on PPRuNe. I also have photos of the DC-4 mentioned in prior posts that was tooling around the PNG sky a few years back. As the CAA inspector said of it there goes another museum piece, as it lumbered smoking it's way relying on the earths curvature.
Craven

[JezYBBN]

Was it Aergo? Brokers in Brisbane

[onehitwonder]

Aergo seems to have there finger in a bit..

Our Airline through Nauru
Peru with the DC8

Are they a broker or is there more to it?

[tourismman]

The DC8 has done 8 flights BNE-INU-BNE now with last one on Friday.Talk of more aircraft.

[chimbu warrior]

It looks like a very well maintained example, and for carrying a decent load a fair distance, the economics of the DC-8-73 would be hard to beat.

Is it linked to Peruvian Airlines, or is the callsign "Peruvian" another operator?

[sheppey]

The DC8 has done 8 flights BNE-INU-BNE now with last one on Friday

I hope the T-VASIS was working on Nauru for the DC8 landing. A bit tricky otherwise, especially at night . In days or nights of yore the T-VASIS was highly unreliable due vandals breaking lamps in the boxes with stones from catapults or jumping on the boxes. Beer bottles occasionally placed on the centreline of the runway were no help, either. Fosters beer cans reflected well in the landing lights. They would have made good emergency runway lights if someone had thought about it especially if the standby airport generator had run out of fuel.

[down3gr33ns]

Hasn't been a T-vasis at Nauru for quite some time.






But the PAPI has been working well for over 6 months.

[Cactusjack]

How's Nick going?

How' Nick going with his 51 year old DC8? Still doing cheap flights to Nauru and back and challenging the Australian competition? I hear he is still busting for a Foreign AOC...likely so as to avoid the usual AOC process blah blah blah. He's got some high level protection from what I hear, however those powers to be have hitched their wagon to the wrong pony me thinks.
Would be good to hear from Evil C again on this matter

[hydroplane]

Alive and k..

Alive and kicking
Australia's Heavylift Cargo to source another DC 8 freighter - ch-aviation.com

What's happened with the OB-2059-P? It's standing idle for more then a month now!

[Stratofreighter]

The end is nigh for Short Belfast "Hector" at Cairns....
Short Belfast status - Cairns Airport - Updated to Feb 2017

[Duck Pilot]

Are they good to break up the other derelict aircraft at Cairns as well?

[Skystar320]

what other derlict aircraft is there

[Duck Pilot]

Few GA twins parked/pushed into the grass, north of the ex Cape York hangar.