Construction completed at Boeing Long Beach plant - October 1998

First flown as N717XB -

Utilised for test purposes before being placed in storage - November 1999

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-VQA - December 19, 2000

Reregistered to Impulse Airlines

Arrived Newcastle on delivery - February 9, 2001

Transferred to QantasLink but operated by Impulse - May 27, 2001

Leased to Boeing for demonstation to Cebu Air - March 1 to March 3, 2004

Transferred to Jetstar - May 25, 2004

Withdrawn from Jetstar service - July 11, 2005

Registered to MDFC Spring Co - August 2, 2005

Reregistered as VH-NXF - August 15, 2005

Delivered to National Jet Systems and operated for QantasLink - August 15, 2005

Registered operator National Jet Systems Pty Ltd - September 2, 2005

Current

VH-VQA. Impulse - in the special 'cockatoo' livery at Melbourne Airport, May 2001.

VH-VQA. Impulse - in the special 'cockatoo' livery at Melbourne Airport, May 2001.

VH-VQA. Impulse - in the special 'cockatoo' livery at Sydney Airport, July 2001.

VH-VQA. Impulse - in the special 'cockatoo' livery at Melbourne Airport, July 2001.

VH-VQA. QantasLink - in the full livery at Brisbane Airport, date unknown.

VH-VQA. QantasLink - in the full livery at Sydney Airport, November 2002.

VH-VQA. Jetstar - in the white livery at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport, August 2005.

VH-NXF. QantasLink - in the revised livery at Perth Airport, October 2005.