Flight: Los Angeles and Moses Lake

flight: The aircraft, registered as VH-OJU and named 'Lord Howe Island', flew its final Qantas flight today from Los Angeles to Moses Lake in Washington when it was handed to engineering giant Rolls-Royce It followed its last commercial flight for the flying kangaroo, from Sydney to Los Angeles, on Sunday, according to Nine News Australia. It is the first of the Qantas' remaining 747-400 aircraft to be retired as it makes way for the new Dreamliner fleet. To improve your experience update it here News National Qantas retires 'Queen of the Skies' Boeing 747-400By 9News Staff12 11pm Oct 16, 2019Facebook Tweet Mail In a changing of the guard for Qantas, the Australian airline has retired its last standard Boeing 747-400 jet but the iconic aircraft is receiving a new lease of life. Qantas hand over the Boeing 747-400 jet to Rolls-Royce after it landed at Moses Lakes in the US. Nine VH-OJU came out of the Boeing production line in January 2000. During its service, VH-OJU flew more than 70 million kilometres, or the equivalent of almost 100 return trips to the moon, operating to dozens of countries and carrying 2.5 million passengers The iconic 747-400, dubbed the 'Queen of the Skies', entered service with Qantas in September 1971, and over the following decades the airline would operate nearly every 747 variant. The aircraft is the last of Qantas' standard Boeing 747-400, running on RB211 engines made by Rolls Royce. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.