All White Brasilia

[Dog One]

Who's operating the all white Brasilia out of Darwin? Is this the new Vincent Aviation aircraft for their proposed Timor RPT?

[Transition Layer]

Negative, it's the latest Scarenorth Brasilia. Seen it in Broome and Kunners in the past couple of weeks.

Anyone know where it came from? FlightWest perhaps?

TL

[JULIET WHISKEY]

Very perceptive TL....

[jetage]

if we're talking about VH-XFR then yes it used to be a flightwest bras

[skylane]

I was watching engineers working on another all white Bras at BN the other day. Our engineer told us that it was also reputed to be going north in the next few days to join its sister ship. How many does Airnorth operate these days?

[OzFlight.net]

I beleive that the Air North fleet is currently owned by two separate owners -

Capiteq Limited

VH-ANA FAIRCHLD SA227-DC DC-871B GARRETT TPE331-12
VH-ANJ EMBRAER EMB-120 ER 120163 PWC PW118
VH-ANK EMBRAER EMB-120 ER 120-155 PWC PW118
VH-ANW FAIRCHLD SA227-DC DC-873B GARRETT TPE331-12
VH-AZO CESSNA 402C 402C0508 CONTNTAL TSIO-520
VH-DIL EMBRAER EMB-120 ER 120-153 PWC PW118
VH-NMQ CESSNA 402C 402C0451 CONTNTAL TSIO-520
VH-RUY CESSNA 402C 402C0273 CONTNTAL TSIO-520
VH-TFM CESSNA 402C 402C0067 CONTNTAL TSIO-520
VH-UCI CESSNA 402C 402C0474 CONTNTAL TSIO-520
VH-XFR EMBRAER EMB-120 ER 120135 PWC PW118

Syncom
VH-ANY FAIRCHLD SA227-DC DC-840B GARRETT TPE331-12
VH-AOT CESSNA 210N 21064124 CONTNTAL IO-520
VH-ASN EMBRAER EMB-120 ER 120-056 PWC PW118
VH-CAJ CESSNA 402C 402C0026 CONTNTAL TSIO-520
VH-FTW BEECH 95-B55 TC-2123 CONTNTAL IO-470
VH-HZL CESSNA 210N 21063276 CONTNTAL IO-520
VH-IDZ CESSNA 210M 21062530 CONTNTAL IO-520
VH-JJN BEECH 58 TH-1276 CONTNTAL IO-520
VH-KNO SHORT SD3-30 SH3061 PWC PT6A-45B
VH-LTB CESSNA 210N 21064679 CONTNTAL IO-520
VH-NQP CESSNA 210N 21064572 CONTNTAL IO-520
VH-SJW CESSNA 210M 21062219 CONTNTAL IO-520
VH-TFF CESSNA 210N 21064277 CONTNTAL IO-520
VH-TFI CESSNA 210N 21064255 CONTNTAL IO-520
VH-TFT CESSNA 210N 21063448 CONTNTAL IO-520
VH-TWP CESSNA 210M 21061841 CONTNTAL IO-520
VH-TZH CESSNA 402C 402C0617 CONTNTAL TSIO-520
VH-WMP CESSNA 210M 21062731 CONTNTAL IO-520

Given the above fleets they currently operate four Brasilia's

[skylane]

Saw two all white Bras in YPDN yesterday. If they are being operated by Airnorth, that will bring their total to 6, although I understand from from an engineering friend that VH-ASN is in the hangar for a extended check.

[topend3]

ANH is another Bras operated by AirNorth, THAT BRINGS THEIR CURRENT FLEET TO SEVEN - asn, anj, anh, ank, dil, xfr and xf? the new one just delivered from Flight West.

[topend3]

sorry, my mistake, the current fleet is 6, anh is not an airnorth machine.

[Dog One]

If theyare operating 6 of the beasts they must be doing all right. Does any one know if they are recruiting - have some AN friends who would be interested in applying.
Also heard from a different source that they have completed a ERJ145 evaluation with the manufacturer.Seems we might hear TOPEND callsigns above FL300.
Nice to hear something positive these days of gloom and doom.

[topend3]

would be great to see jets for airnorth, if they are really going to expand they need to move up into the bottom end of the jet market and open up new routes like direct broome? also, they aren't getting the traffic on the Cairns route via Groote in the Bras cos lets face it if you want to go to cairns you are better off jumping on a 146....

[tupela]

The new albino E120 - VH-XFX

[Mango]

Airnorth might have done a ERJ145 evaluation with the manufacturer but I dont think you will be hearing any topends up at FL300 for a while yet.

1) I think they need a high capacity AOC
2) If they fly jets, will they not be competing against Airlink/Qantas?

Either way, I have to agree that it would be great if they got jets sooner rather than later.