The aircraft, VH-OQA, was stored in the Victorville desert boneyard during the pandemic before flying to LAX in September, and now joins VH-OQG in receiving a cabin upgrade in the UAE.
It comes after the Flying Kangaroo moved to outsource ground handling operations at the 10 Australian airports where it was still running them in-house, including Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne.
The Dutch court found Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and Leonid Kharchenko guilty of murdering the 298 people on board flight MH17, which was shot down by a Russian surface-to-air missile.
Last year alone, 100 current or former RAAF personnel suffered some sort of “suicide-related event” – the highest count of all three services.
The incident killed one man – who has yet to be publicly identified – and saw the five-seat Bell 206 roll before descending and crashing into a riverbank near Maitland.
The ‘graduation’ was marked by flypasts of Pilatus PC-21 and Hawk 127 training aircraft and a parade led by the Western Australian Police Pipe Band on 4 November.