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Post by heyado75 on Feb 13, 2024 0:51:43 GMT -5
Now we come to one of the smallest airlines in Australia back in 1998, Air Facilities. Air Facilities used Piper Navajos to fly 12 return services weekly on the route between Albury and Canberra. No repaints are known to exist.
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Post by heyado75 on Feb 13, 2024 1:01:37 GMT -5
Time now for an airline that serviced a geographically large area of western NSW, this is Air Link. Air Link in 1998 was an airline/charter operation based in Dubbo and using a fleet of Piper Navajos and Cessna 310Rs to service ports such as Bourke, Brewarrina, Cobar and Lightning Ridge. Most arrivals and departures from Dubbo were scheduled to feed to/from Hazelton Airlines services to Sydney. Such was the closeness of the relationship that Air Link used Hazelton's IATA code of ZL for their flight numbers. The ORBX Australia and New Zealand AI package contains repaints of the Navajo in Air Link livery.
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Post by heyado75 on Feb 15, 2024 1:53:06 GMT -5
The Airlines of South Australia that existed in 1998 was no relation to the former Ansett subsidiary that ceased operations in 1986. The 'new' airline was formed by the merger of two carriers Augusta Airways and Lincoln Airlines. Aside from services connecting Adelaide with Port Augusta and Port Lincoln, the airline flew what was dubbed "the world's longest mail run" with a weekly service connecting Port Augusta with Birdsville in outback Queensland via various intermediate ports. No repaints are understood to exist.
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Post by heyado75 on Feb 19, 2024 0:57:41 GMT -5
Aus Air was a third-level airline based at Melbourne's main GA airport, Moorabbin. With a fleet of Embraer Bandeirantes and Piper Navajos they concentrated mostly on services linking Moorabbin with northern Tasmanian ports Launceston, Devonport and Burnie/Wynyard, plus King and Flinders Islands. During 1998 they also flew a couple of times a week to and from Merimbula, and via Traralgon/Morewell on some services to/from Flinders Island. There are no known repaints in existence.
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