Australia’s very first passenger jet aircraft made its final flight yesterday from Sydney, where it arrived some months ago after flying from the UK, to the Qantas Founders Museum at Longreach in western Queensland.
Hundreds of people, including Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile, gathered at the Longreach airstrip to see the restored Boeing 707 arrive and land, first owned by Qantas in the 1950s and saved at the last minute from being scrapped in the UK, by the Qantas Founders Museum and 60 volunteers, many of whom were on board today’s flight with Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon.
Original Qantas flight steps were used to greet the emotional arrival of the flight and the engineers who were clearly overjoyed by the welcome they received.
Museum Manager Colin Westwood said that he was glad to see the 707 is back home at the birthplace of Qantas where it will stay as a permanent exhibit.
Report by The Mole
