VH-TJW. Boeing 737-4L7. c/n 26961-2517.


Ordered new by Air Nauru

Rolled off the Boeing production line at Renton - August 4, 1993

Powered by CFM International CFM-56-3C1 engines

First flown at Renton - August 16, 1993

Accepted by Air Nauru at Seattle - August 27, 1993

Entered onto the Nauru Aircraft Register as C2-RN11 - August 27, 1993

Sold to Qantas Airways Ltd - June 20, 1995

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-TJW - June 21, 1995

Registered to Qantas Airways Ltd

Aircraft named 'Sharing'

Operated first revenue service Melbourne-Brisbane-Cairns - July 1, 1995

Leased to Air Nauru - June 4 to June 17, 1996

Leased to Air Vanuatu - April 28 to May 3, 1998

Leased to Air Nauru - June 2, 1998

Operated Air Nauru service Melbourne-Brisbane-Nauru as ON322 - June 2, 1998

Operated last Air Nauru service Nauru-Brisbane-Melbourne as ON351 - June 26, 1998

Returned to Qantas at end of lease in Melbourne - June 26, 1998

Aircraft renamed 'Strahan' - September 13, 2003

Registered to Qantas Airways Ltd - February 2, 2008

Operated 'last' revenue service Canberra-Melbourne as QF819 - October 17, 2011

Ferried Melbourne (Tullamarine)-Avalon as QF6112 for storage - October 18, 2011

Ferried Avalon-Melbourne (Tullamarine) as QF6122 - November 22, 2011

Returned to service Melbourne-Sydney as QF434 - November 22, 2011

Current with Qantas - 2011


C2-RN11. Air Nauru - in the full livery at Brisbane Airport, December 1993.

VH-TJW. Qantas Spirit of Australia - in the full livery at Melbourne Airport, October 2003.