1980s EXECUTIVE JETS
A selection of my pictures of the rapidly growing executive jet market in Australia during the decade
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British Aerospace 125-700B VH-HSP owned by the Coles supermarket group seen at Geraldton WA in August 1987
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Shell Oil Australia's BAe 125-700B VH-HSS at Perth Airport March 1985
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Brand new 125-700B VH-IXL at Perth on 31October 1985 during its delivery flight from Britain to John Elliot's IXL Group
which included Carlton and United Breweries, makers of Fosters Lager
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Dassault Falcon 10 VH-MEI at Perth April 1987. It was imported in 1977 for Mount Enid Iron's mining operations in WA
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Falcon 10 N235FJ visiting Perth on a demonstration tour in June 1981
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N235FJ three years later as Drayton Industries' VH-DJT, seen at Hamilton Island, Qld in October 1984
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Falcon 20F VH-FAX at Essendon Vic in February 1988
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Australian Jet Charter's Falcon 20E VH-HFJ at Essendon in September 1986
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Flightways Air Services, Perth imported Falcon 20C VH-FWO from Canada in January 1986
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Flightways Air Services operated Falcon 20F VH-NMN for Mount Newman Mining Co in northern WA
It is seen arriving Perth on delivery in May 1986 after purchase in USA
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Australian Jet Charter, Sydney Falcon 20F VH-RRC at Perth April 1987 operated for Rhodes Ridge Mining in northern WA
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Falcon 50 N781B at Perth in March 1985 was owned by the Nabisco food manufacturing group
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Demonstrator Mitsubishi Mu-300 Diamond N335DM at Essendon in November 1984
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Cessna 500 Citation I VH-NEW at Essendon in November 1984 had just been imported that same month
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Cessna 500 VH-SWC at Perth in Jnaaury 1982 with local charter operator Presidential Jet Services.
This Citation I was originally used by Keith Williams' Seaworld at Surfers Paradise Qld
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Seaworld moved up to Cessna 550 Citation II VH-SWL. Seen at Hamilton Island, part of the Seaworld group, in October 1984
The marshaller's outfit is appropriate for this Whitsundays tropical tourist resort - not a high-visibility jacket in sight
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Ingham Chickens group's Cessna 550 Citation II VH-ING visiting Perth in April 1981
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Flightways Air Services Citation II VH-WGJ was based at Perth Airport in August 1982
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Gates Learjet 35A VH-CPH with Kerry Packer's Consolidated Press Holdings, Sydney. Seen at Perth in July 1985.
The big man preferred their Sydney-based corporate Douglas DC-8
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Swan Brewery Company's Learjet 35A VH-SBJ at home base Perth Airport in March 1980
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Mount Isa Mines' Learjet 35A VH-MIQ visiting Perth in February 1982
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Learjet 35A VH-TPR was operated by Australian Jet Charter for the Tipperary Pastoral group, Tipperary Station NT.
Photographed at Perth in Sepotember 1988
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Israeli Aircraft Industries 1124 Westwind 1 VH-ASR of Associated Airlines, Melbourne. Seen at Perth April 1982, where it was
a regular visitor during the decade along with Associated's Gulfstream jets, supporting BHP/Conzinc Rio Tinto mining interests
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Finishing with my style of business aircraft. Grumman G159 Gulfstream 1 VH-JPJ seen at Richmond NSW in October 1988.
This 1968 production G1 had been purchased just a few months earlier by a Sydney company from Rolls Royce in UK
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More
pictures of business jets can be found at 1980s
Perth Airport and 1980s
Perth Airport Visitors-Civil
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