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  • Qantas (redirect from Qantas Empire Airways)
    Airways, a forerunner of British Airways, formed a new company, Qantas Empire Airways Limited (QEA). In December 1934, the new airline began operations...
    206 KB (17,448 words) - 05:09, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Qantas fatal accidents
    incidents between 1942 and 1944 were during World War II, when Qantas Empire Airways operated on behalf of the military. While strictly speaking not...
    15 KB (739 words) - 06:31, 6 April 2024
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    Brisbane service commenced on 13 April 1935. Imperial Airways and Qantas Empire Airways opened the 12,754-mile (20,526 km) London to Brisbane route for...
    73 KB (5,459 words) - 18:20, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wallaby Route
    Route or "Wallaby Service" is a term coined by Qantas (formerly Qantas Empire Airways), referring to the commercial passenger air route between Australia...
    12 KB (1,290 words) - 08:04, 1 May 2024
  • Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, departing from Cloncurry. Qantas Empire Airways Limited (QEA) was formed by Qantas and Britain's Imperial Airways...
    89 KB (8,509 words) - 03:19, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Horseshoe route
    (BOAC) operated the section between Durban and Singapore while Qantas Empire Airways operated the section between Singapore and Sydney. In October 1941...
    6 KB (688 words) - 02:01, 28 November 2023
  • (Keeling) Islands when they had larger pay loads. In the 1940s, Qantas Empire Airways maintained five Catalinas and flew to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands...
    9 KB (648 words) - 07:31, 18 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Qantas House
    Historically significant as the first planned world headquarters for Qantas Empire Airways, at the time Australia's only, and Government-owned, international...
    29 KB (4,098 words) - 10:01, 6 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines
    discussed a takeover of the airline by Qantas Empire Airways. In 1954 it was announced that Qantas Empire Airways would take over the BCPA services between...
    6 KB (624 words) - 12:57, 23 June 2023
  • Huntingfield Governor of Western Australia – none appointed 26 February – Qantas Empire Airways makes its first scheduled international flight, when a De Havilland...
    8 KB (817 words) - 02:17, 23 March 2024
  • the suburb of Parap. List of airports in the Northern Territory Qantas Empire Airways Ltd Hangar – NT Heritage Listing Oz at War Website Portals: Royal...
    5 KB (298 words) - 14:13, 13 February 2024
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    starting point for the Sydney to London flights that were operated by Qantas Empire Airways and Imperial Airways in a codeshare agreement. This made it Australia's...
    6 KB (438 words) - 23:14, 4 July 2024
  • January – Qantas and Imperial Airways join forces and establish Qantas Empire Airways. 12 March – An intense cyclone crosses the Queensland coast near...
    13 KB (1,306 words) - 12:38, 9 June 2024
  • Melbourne and the fifth wettest on record in Sydney 1 September – Qantas Empire Airways commences the first air service between Australia and South Africa...
    11 KB (1,108 words) - 07:17, 16 July 2024
  • Airways order and were delivered instead to the Anglo-Australian Qantas Empire Airways. In late 1937, due to Imperial Airways' satisfaction with its operational...
    46 KB (5,194 words) - 12:45, 25 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aubrey Koch
    finally achieved his ambition of joining what was then known as Qantas Empire Airways (QEA) with an appointment on 4 July 1938. The Singapore service...
    17 KB (2,086 words) - 08:01, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Keith Macpherson Smith
    Pacific Airlines (taken over by Qantas in 1954), and as a director of Qantas Empire Airways and Tasman Empire Airways Limited (a subsidiary of Imperial Airways...
    6 KB (506 words) - 02:48, 22 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arthur Drakeford
    between the states. In 1947, he was in charge of the purchase of Qantas Empire Airways Ltd from Imperial Airways and its establishment as Australia's flag...
    7 KB (677 words) - 15:24, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Raymond Gurney
    left Guinea Airways and joined Qantas (at that stage, known as Qantas Empire Airways) as a captain flying de Havilland D.H.86s on the Brisbane-Singapore...
    30 KB (3,180 words) - 02:21, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of maritime patrol aircraft
    including fuselage depth charge racks and tail and top turrets; five Qantas Empire Airways/BOAC examples converted for the Royal Australian Air Force with...
    16 KB (268 words) - 02:27, 4 April 2024
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