| City of Canberra | |
|---|---|
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Qantas_(VH-OJA)_Boeing_747-438_makes_its_final_ever_landing_at_Illawarra_Regional_Airport.jpg) The City of Canberra lands for the last time at Shellharbour Airport, 8 March 2015 | |
| General information | |
| Type | Boeing 747-438 |
| Status | Preserved by Historical Aircraft Restoration Society |
| Owners | Qantas |
| Construction number | 24354 (Line Number 731) |
| Registration | N6046P (Boeing Test) VH-OJA (Qantas) |
| Flights | 13,833 |
| Total hours | 106,154 |
| Total distance | 85 million kilometres |
| History | |
| Manufactured | February 1989 |
| First flight | 3 July 1989 |
| In service | 6 September 1989 - 13 January 2015 |
| Last flight | 8 March 2015 |
| Preserved at | Shellharbour Airport |
The City of Canberra is a preserved Boeing 747-438 delivered to Qantas in 1989 and now on display at the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society museum at Shellharbour Airport, Albion Park Rail, Australia.
On 16–17 August 1989, whilst en route from the Boeing Everett Factory in the United States following her registration as a newly completed Qantas aircraft, the City of Canberra made a non-stop delivery flight from London Heathrow to Qantas' headquarters in Sydney.[1][2]
As of February 2015[update], the month of the aircraft's final passenger-carrying flight, this was still the longest non-stop un-refuelled delivery flight by an airliner.[3][4]
- ^ "VH-OJA Boeing 747-438". www.AussieAirliners.org. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ^ "Long Reach". Australian Aviation (323). 2015. ISSN 0813-0876.
- ^ "Qantas flies London-Sydney non-stop". Flight International. 136 (4179). Sutton, Surrey: Reed Business Publishing: 8. 26 August 1989. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ Freed, Jamie (29 January 2015). "World's longest flight record-holder, Qantas 'City of Canberra' 747-400, retires". Canberra Times. Canberra, ACT. Retrieved 8 February 2015.