- Year
- 2018
Specifications
Performance (across variants)
- Range ·
- 3,800 nm
- Cruise ·
- 460 kt
- Service ceiling ·
- 41,000 ft
- MTOW ·
- 89,700 kg
- Passengers ·
- Up to 230
Description
My aircraft was Qantas Boeing 737-838 VH-VZA ‘Port Augusta’ (MSN 34195/2502). VH-VZA is ten years old, having been first test flown by Boeing in Seattle as N1786B on 21 January 2008, but the next day was marked as N1779B. It was the first Qantas 737-838 painted in the then-new ‘New Roo’ livery and was the 37th Boeing 737 delivered new to Qantas. It was delivered from Seattle (Boeing Field) – Honolulu – Nadi – Melbourne on 9 – 11 February 2008, and entered service on 15 February 2008, initially with 12 Business Class seats and 156 Economy, but in January 2016 was reconfigured with 12 Business and 162 Economy seats.In April 2018, VH-VZA was repainted into the revised ‘Silver Roo’ Qantas livery. It is equipped with overhead screens for In Flight Entertainment, plus Wifi to passenger’s devices.
