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Qantas’s first 747-400 makes the short hop into a long retirement

While Qantas has handed the “keys” to VH-OJA over to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS), the record-breaking Boeing 747-400 will be surrounded by a lot of familiar faces as it settles into a new home at Illawarra Airport.

That’s because, as Qantas Captain Greg Matthews explains, there are about 400 HARS volunteers that have actually worked on the 25-yearold aircraft, the first 747-400 in the Qantas fleet.