"In the real world, you can go to Antarctica and witness the march of the penguins, or to Africa and witness the march of the Wildebeest.
In cyberworld, you can come to Wikipedia and witness the march of the fuck-knuckles."

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Peregrinations and other stuff

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This user has visited 8 of the various States and territories of Australia.

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This user has visited 14 of the 50 United States.

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This user is owned by one or more dogs.

This user likes penguins.

This user is a Douglas DC-3 fan.

This user is a fan of the P-47 Thunderbolt.

This user has flown above the speed of smell in a piece of crap cargo aircraft

This user has stood on the top of Yding Skovhøj and Ejer Bavnehøj, at the time thought to be the two highest points of Denmark.

This user has been to the site of Ravensbrück concentration camp, near Berlin in Germany.

This user has seen the island of Surtsey, which didn't exist until 1963, in Iceland.

This user has seen Komodo dragons on the islands of Rinca and Komodo and visited Borobodur, in Indonesia.

This user has watched brave small children climb to the tops of castells during La Mercè in Barcelona, Spain.

This user has dined at At.mosphere, the restaurant on Level 122 of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

This user has stood next to the marker denoting the geographic center of the 'lower 48' states of the United States of America.

This user has stood on the crater rim of Yasur as it erupted, on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu.

This user is one of the the top 3000 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

This editor is a Senior Editor III and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star.

This user has written or expanded 1 article featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user page has been vandalized 9 times.

I am an Australian aviation enthusiast who also works within the aviation industry - at Sydney Airport when I first joined the Wikipedia community (hence my user name, the International Civil Aviation Organization airport identification code for Sydney Airport is YSSY) - in the field of aircraft maintenance.

Possibly the best edit summary I have seen

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Bushranger

Also possibly the best edit summary I have seen

Now I'm conflicted. The work of BilCat everyone [thunderous applause]

With a tug of the forelock to Whitney Houston...

*sings* "...and Ooooff is the direction I'd like yooouuu to Fuuuuck"

Sockpuppet investigation

I thought I'd seen it all on Wikipedia; then I saw this breathtaking edit. Methinks s/he doth protest too much.

A couple of weeks later, we have this "new" User, whose very first edit serves to announce - among other things - that s/he is not a sockpuppet of ModernFire. Kind of takes the fun out of running an SPI.

Best. Unblock. Request. Ever

"You should unblock me because blocking me is a violation of the UN Declaration of Human Rights". Wow...

Does anyone actually read the articles?

So, on 30 December 2008 Aditya Kabir added some text to the Bikini article, that included the phrase 'made by Mappin and Webb of London in the 1977'. On 14 January 2009, Aditya Kabir did a cut-and-paste job to move text to the Bikini variants article (in only the third edit to that article), including the phrase 'in the 1977'. That phrase remained in the article until I edited it on 25 June 2019 —- a bit under ten-and-a-half years between the mistake being made and somebody fixing it.

I'm not having a go about the mistake, I have typed 'the the' plenty of times when not explicitly referring to the eponymous band. I wonder how many people have read that phrase 'in the 1977' and done nothing about it, or read that without noticing it.

Barnstars

I award you the *Aviation Barnstar* in recognition of your knowledgeable contribution to aviation articles. -Bzuk

		The Citation Barnstar
		For finding great refs for the Cessna 180 article to replace some pretty old fact tags - Ahunt (talk) 02:30, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

		Wikiwings
		For extraordinary contributions to Aircraft in fiction, thus improving hundreds of aircraft type articles along the way! - Ahunt (talk) 15:19, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Thank you for the great editing for many aviation articles especially the Fokker F27 Friendship article! Jacsam2 (talk) 22:46, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	I am very pleased to award you the Special Barnstar for your extraordinary work behind the scenes. I thank you so much for keeping a watch on articles that do not meet Wikipedia's guidelines, and nominate them for deletion as a result. Cheers! Sp33dyphil ^{"Ad astra"} 06:53, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	I like your style WP:BOLD when dealing with articles on minor aviation crashes. ...William 19:03, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

		Wikiwings
		Awarded for great work expanding the Piper Aircraft article. - Ahunt (talk) 14:45, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For your hard work on aviation related articles. ...William 14:16, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

	First class meal for you
	Thank you for cleaning up the fleet and destination tables for airline articles. — Sunnya343✈ (háblame • my work) 18:01, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Nice work cleaning up Canada–United States border and many other articles. Magnolia677 (talk) 14:16, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Articles

Articles created

I have created thirty articles so far, seventeen dealing with aspects of the Australian aviation industry:

Significant contributions

Some (but not all) of the articles dealing with aspects of Australian aviation that I have edited were almost non-existent as far as content was concerned. While not creating them, I consider that I have made a very large contribution to these articles:

Edits

In the first year-or-so after registering an account in July 2007, my editing tended to be of the "one-massive-edit" school (for example this expansion of the de Havilland Australia article and this edit to the Ryan ST article) rather than the "make-lots-of-small edits" variety but nowadays I don't have the time to spend several hours working on one article. As a result of having less time to spend, I now usually make small edits to articles, often to fix typographical errors and spelling mistakes; as of February 2015, about 3,200 of my 17,000 edits have been such edits, including changing "aircrafts" to "aircraft" more than 600 times.

I also find that I make a lot of edits when curiosity dictates that I follow the wikilinks to wherever they go; for example I made this edit then clicked on a wikilink in the article, which led to this edit, then on to another linked article and these edits, then another article and another edit - and lo and behold: more than two hours passes by. To give another example, while searching for instances of "a Australian" to correct, I came across this article about Haig Sare, whom I had never heard of and which didn't contain "a Australian", but which I could see needed work, so I made this edit; I then clicked on a link in the article to search for an appropriate Category to add, which led me to the article about Sare's old school (Sydney Church of England Grammar School) and to make this edit. After clicking on the link in the Hatnote I had created, I made this edit to the List of Old Boys of Shore, then added Haig Sare to the list in another edit. After saving that edit I noticed a formatting issue that I fixed with this edit, then arrived at the bottom of the page, where I found the Category People educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, which I then added to the Haig Sare article. That, in a nutshell, is how I end up editing lots of articles a small number of times.

My initial "big-change" edit style and my more recent "edit-and-move-on" style have resulted in an overall average of about two edits per page; however having said that, as of the end of December 2016 I have edited one-hundred-and-one articles more than twenty times each. This includes fifty-eight articles edited more than forty times each, of which nine I edited a-hundred-or-more times, including: 360 edits to the Qantas article; 210 edits to the LaMia Flight 2933 article (in barely more than a month); 180 edits to the Virgin Australia article; and 330 edits - mostly small fixes and copyedits - to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 article (including 170 edits in the first week-and-a-half following the aircraft's disappearance). My "Top Ten" articles-by-number-of-edits account for more than 1,800 of my 26,500 edits made. January 2015 was the first time I managed to make more than a thousand edits in a month; I also made more than a thousand edits in October 2016 and more than 990 in December the same year. Conversely, there have been two periods of six months during which I made no edits at all; and another six-month period during which I made less than a hundred edits.

4,000th edit was to the PacificFlier article on 10 June 2010; the article was deleted in August 2016
5,000th edit was to add an image to the Pratt & Whitney R-2000 article on 29 March 2011.
6,000th edit was this version of the RotorSport UK Calidus article, on 2 August 2011.
7,000th edit was this version of the No. 3 Squadron RAAF article, on 27 October 2011.
8,000th edit was this version of the Yogyakarta article, on 19 July 2012, coincidently the fifth anniversary of my creating a Wkipedia User account (although I had edited as an IP for some time prior to that).
9,000th edit was this version of the Kremenchuk flight college of National Aviation University article, on 13 November 2012
10,000th edit was this version of the Environmental protection article, on 27 May 2013
11,000th edit was this version of the Hong Kong International Airport article, on 2 July 2013
12,000th edit was this version of the Garrett TPE331 article, on 3 December 2013
13,000th edit was to add an image to the Tigerair Australia article on 26 February 2014
14,000th edit was this version of the Sophia Magdalena of Denmark article, on 18 March 2014
15,000th edit was this version of the Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 article, on 12 May 2014
16,000th edit was this version of the Fiji Airways article, on 20 January 2015
17,000th edit was this version of the Kelly Hoppen article, on 4 February 2015
18,000th edit was this version of the Skytrans Airlines article, on 27 March 2015
19,000th edit was this version of the Mustafa Yılmaz article, on 17 May 2015
20,000th edit was this version of the Trigana Air Service Flight 257 article, on 18 August 2015
21,000th edit was this version of the East Star Airlines article, on 12 April 2016
22,000th edit was this version of the Indian Air Force article, on 20 May 2016
23,000th edit was this version of the List of aircraft of the Swiss Air Force, on 8 August 2016
24,000th edit was this version of the Air New Zealand article, on 15 October 2016
25,000th edit was this version of the Virgin America destinations list, on 13 November 2016
26,000th edit was this version of the Interjet article, on 17 December 2016
27,000th edit was this version of the United Airlines Flight 175 article, on 24 January 2017
28,000th edit was this version of the 2016 Indonesian Police PZL M28 Skytruck crash article, on 16 June 2017
"Tenth Anniversary" edit since registering an account was the 28,292nd edit made, this version of the Gujarat Beechcraft incident article, on 19 July 2017
29,000th edit was this version of the Sunna (band) article, on 17 December 2017 - the 114th anniversary of the first successful flights by the Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer and the 82nd anniversary of the first flight of the Douglas DC-3
30,000th edit was this version of the Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 article, on 22 April 2018
31,000th edit was this version of the Fulda article, on 7 November 2018
32,000th edit was a !vote on an Articles for Deletion discussion page, on 19 March 2019
33,000th edit was this version of the Ralf Little article, on 17 December 2020 - the 117th anniversary of the first successful flights by the Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer and the 85th anniversary of the first flight of the Douglas DC-3

Aircraft, airlines and journeys

Aircraft types I have worked on during my career

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Aero Commander: 500S Shrike Commander; 681 Hawk Commander
Aérospatiale: AS 350 Ecureuil; AS 355 Twin Squirrel
AESL: CT/4A Airtrainer
Agusta Aerospace Corporation: A119 Koala
Alpha Aviation: R2160 Alpha Sport
Beechcraft: D17S Staggerwing; D18S Expediter; A23 and A23A Musketeer; C23 Sundowner; C24R Sierra; F33A Bonanza; S35 and V35 Bonanza; A36 and G36 Bonanza; 95-55, D55A and 58 Baron; A60 Duke; 65-B80 Queen Air (Excalibur Conversion); A65-8200 Commuter; 76 Duchess; 77 Skipper; 65-A90, C90SE and C90GTi King Air; D95A Travel Air; 200 and 200T Super King Air; B200, B200C and B200GT King Air; B300 King Air 350 and 350i; B300C King Air 350C; 1900C and 1900D Airliner
Bell Aircraft: P-39F Airacobra
Bell Helicopter: 206 Jetranger; 206L LongRanger; 407 and 407GX; 412EP; 505 Jet Ranger X; AH-1S Cobra; UH-1B Iroquois
Bellanca: 8KCAB Decathlon
Boeing (Stearman Division): A75N1
Bristol Aeroplane Company: Beaufighter; Beaufort
British Aerospace: Jetstream 31 and 32; Jetstream 41
British Aircraft Corporation: 167 Strikemaster
Britten-Norman: BN-2 Islander; BN-2T Turbine Islander
Canadian Car and Foundry: Harvard 4
Cessna: 150 series; 152 series; 172 series; 172RG; 177; 177RG Cutlass; 180; 182 series; A185E; A188; 206 series; 208 Caravan; 208B Grand Caravan, Grand Caravan EX and Super Cargomaster; 210A, 210D, P210N and 210R Centurion; P210N Silver Eagle; 310B, 310Q and 310R; 337 series; 340 and 340A; 401; 402A and 402B; 404 Titan; 411A; 414A Chancellor; 421B and 421C Golden Eagle; 441 Conquest II; 500 Citation I; 501 Citation I-SP; 510 Citation Mustang; 525 CitationJet, CJ1, CJ1+ and M2; 525A CJ2; 525B CJ3; 525C CJ4; 550 Citation II and Citation Bravo; 551 Citation II-SP; 560 Citation Ultra and Citation Encore; 650 Citation III and Citation VII; 680 Sovereign; 750 Citation X; O-1A, O-1E and O-1G Bird Dog

Cirrus Design: SR20
Colonial Aircraft Corporation: C-2 Skimmer
Columbia Aircraft: Columbia 400
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation: CA-12 Boomerang; CA-16 Wirraway; CA-18 Mk.22 Mustang; CA-25 Winjeel
Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft: PBY-6A Catalina
Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA: C.212-200 Aviocar
Convair: C-131F Samaritan
Czech Aircraft Works: SportCruiser
Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation/Dassault Aviation: Falcon 20F-5; Falcon 50 and Falcon 50EX; Falcon 200; Falcon 900C and 900EX EASy; Falcon 2000, 2000LX and 2000LXS; Falcon 7X
de Havilland Australia: DH 115 Vampire T.35
de Havilland Canada: DHC-2 Beaver; DHC-4 Caribou; DHC-6 Twin Otter
Diamond Aircraft Industries: DA40; DA42 NG; DA62
Douglas Aircraft Company: DC-3; C-47 Dakota; DC-8-62
Embraer: EMB 110 Bandeirante series
Fairchild: SA226-TC Metro II and Metro IIA; SA226-AT Merlin IVA; SA227-AC Metro III; SA227-AT Merlin IVC and Expediter; SA227-DC Metro 23
Found Aircraft: FBA-2C3 Expedition E350
Grob Aerospace: G 115A
Grumman: F7F Tigercat; S-2E Tracker
American Aviation/Grumman American: AA-1 series; AA-5 series; GA-7 Cougar
Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation: Y-12 (II)
Hawker Siddeley: HS.125-3B
Hughes Helicopters: 300C; 500D
Hunting Percival/BAC: Jet Provost series
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Aerospace Company: BK 117 B-2
Lake Aircraft Corporation: LA4 Buccaneer; LA4-250 Renegade
Lockheed: 10A Electra; 1049F Super Constellation; C-130H Hercules; SP-2H Neptune

Maule: M-7 series
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm: BK 117 B-2
Mikoyan-Gurevich: MiG-21UM
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries: MU-2B-25, MU-2B-30, MU-2B-35 and MU-2B-36A
Mooney: M20C Ranger/M20F Executive 21; M20J 201 and 205; M20K 231 and 252; M20L PFM
Avions Mudry: CAP 10B
SNCA du Nord: 1002 Pingouin
North American: Harvard III; AT-6D Texan; T-28D Trojan
Pacific Aerospace: Cresco
Partenavia: P.68 series
Rinaldo Piaggio S.p.A.: P.166 and P.166B Portofino
Pilatus Aircraft: PC-12/45 and PC-12/47E
Piper: PA-18-150 Super Cub; PA-22-108 Colt; PA-23-250 Aztec; PA-28 Cherokee/Warrior series; PA-28R-200 Arrow series; PA-30 and PA-39 Twin Comanche; PA-31 Navajo/Chieftain series; PA-31T Cheyenne II; PA-32-300 Cherokee Six; PA-32R Lance/Saratoga series; PA-34 Seneca series; PA-38-112 Tomahawk; PA-44-180 Seminole; PA-46-310P Malibu; PA-46-350P Mirage/M350; JetPROP DLX; PA-60 Aerostar series
Pitts: S-2A Special
PZL Mielec: SB Lim-2; Lim-6; TS-11bis DF Iskra
Raytheon Aircraft Company: Hawker 400XP; Premier IA
Republic Aviation: P-47D Thunderbolt
Robinson Helicopter Company: R44
Rockwell: 114A Commander; 690 and 690A Turbo Commander
Saab: SF340A, 340A, 340B and 340BPlus
Scottish Aviation: Twin Pioneer Series 3
Short Brothers: SC.7 Skyvan
SIAI-Marchetti: S.205-22R
Sikorsky Aircraft: CH-54A Aircrane; S-76A Spirit
SOCATA/DAHER-SOCATA: TB9 Tampico; TB10 Tobago; TB20 Trinidad; TBM 700; TBM 850 Elite
Ted Smith Aircraft Company: 600 series Aerostar
Transavia: PL-12 Airtruk
Van's Aircraft: RV-8

Aircraft in which I have flown

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An autogyro of unknown type

Aero Commander: 500S Shrike Commander
Aerospatiale: AS 350 Ecureuil; AS 355 Twin Squirrel
Airbus: A310; A318; A319; A320 and A320neo; A321; A330-200 and -300; A340-300/-500/-600; A380
Avions de Transport Régional: ATR 72-500 and -600
Beechcraft: A23A Musketeer; F33A Bonanza; 58 Baron; 76 Duchess; 200T Super King Air and B200 King Air; B300 King Air 350; 1900C and 1900D
Bell: 206 Jetranger; 206L Longranger; 407GX; 505 Jet Ranger X
Boeing: 717; 727-200; 737-200/-300/-400/-500/-700/-800/-900ER; 747-400 and -400ER; 757-200 and -300; 767-200/200ER and -300ER; 777-200ER, -200LR and -300ER; 787-8 and -9
British Aerospace: BAe 146-100; Jetstream 31 and 32; Jetstream 41
Britten-Norman: BN-2 Islander
Canadair/Bombardier Aerospace: CRJ200; CRJ700 and CRJ701ER; CRJ900; CRJ1000

Canadian Vickers: OA-10A Catalina
CASA: C.212-200 Aviocar
Cessna: 152; 172 Skyhawk; 182 Skylane; 208 Caravan and 208B Grand Caravan EX; P210 Centurion; 310B/310Q/310R; 340A; 402A and 402B; 421B Golden Eagle; 441 Conquest II; 510 Citation Mustang; 525B CJ3; 650 Citation VII; 750 Citation X*; O-1E Bird Dog

*The highest altitude I have ever been (flight level 470 - approximately 47,000 feet (14,000 m)) and the fastest speed I have ever moved over the surface of the earth (707 miles per hour (1,138 km/h))

Cirrus Design: SR20
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation: CA-16 Wirraway; CA-25 Winjeel
Dassault Aviation: Falcon 50
de Havilland: DH.114 Heron
de Havilland Australia: DHA-3 Drover
de Havilland Canada/Bombardier Aerospace: DHC-2 Beaver; DHC-8 Dash 8 series 100/series 200/Q300/Q400
Dornier: Do 228-200
Douglas: DC-3/C-47 Dakota; DC-9
Embraer: EMB 110 Bandeirante; ERJ-145XR; ERJ-170 and -175; ERJ-190 and -195
Eurocopter: EC130 B4

Fairchild: SA226-TC Metro II; SA227-AC Metro III; SA227-DC Metro 23
Fokker: F27 Friendship; F27 Mk. 050 (Fokker 50); F28 Mk. 0070 (Fokker 70)
Glasair Aviation: SH-3R Glasair III
Harbin: Y-12 (IV)
Kawasaki: BK 117 B-2
Lockheed: SP-2H Neptune; 1049F Super Constellation
McDonnell Douglas: MD-11; MD-83; MD-88
Mitsubishi: MU-2B-30 and -35
Mooney: M20J 201
SNCA du Nord: 1002 Pingouin
North American: T-28D Trojan
Piper: PA-28-140 Cherokee and -151 Warrior; PA-28R-200 Arrow; PA-31-310 Navajo and PA-31-350 Chieftain; PA-32-300 Cherokee Six; PA-44-180 Seminole
Avions Pierre Robin: DR400
Robinson: R44
Rockwell: 690A Turbo Commander
Saab: SF340A/B/B+
Sikorsky: S-76A
Supermarine: Spitfire Tr.9
Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation: MA60

Airlines and journeys

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Airlines I have flown on (in order of travel):

AvDev (1 flight)

Air New South Wales (1)

Trans Australia Airlines (~6)

Ansett Australia (~10)

Qantas (60+)

Scandinavian Airlines (4)

Maersk Air (2)

Singapore Airlines (6)

Lufthansa (4)

Airlink (2)

Pel-Air (6)

Jetcraft Aviation (3)

Airtex Aviation (2)

Hazelton Airlines (1)

Eastern Australia Airlines (2)

Freedom Air (2)

Ansett Australia operated by Kendell Airlines (1)

Virgin Blue/Virgin Australia (500+)

British Airways (9)

Iberia Airlines (2)

Cathay Pacific (1)

Finnair (2)

Widerøe (1)

Landsflug (2)

easyJet (1)

American Airlines (4)

Regional Express Airlines (~30)

Air Link (1)

Southwest Airlines (2)

Jetstar Airways (36)

United Express operated by SkyWest Airlines (2)

Riau Airlines (1)

Indonesia Air Transport (1)

Garuda Indonesia (2)

Tiger Airways Australia (1)

Tasair (2)

Air Vanuatu (4)

Spanair (1)

TAP Portugal (1)

QantasLink operated by Eastern Australia Airlines (49)

Etihad Airways (16)

Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways (1)

Tyrolean Airways (1)

Virgin Australia operated by Skywest Airlines/Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (26)

Brindabella Airlines (4)

Brindabella Airlines operated by Aeropelican Air Services (1)

SilkAir (3)

Merpati Nusantara Airlines (1)

Emirates (2)

China Eastern Airlines (2)

China Eastern Airlines operated by Shanghai Airlines (1)

QantasLink operated by National Jet (1)

Virgin Australia New Zealand operated by Virgin Australia International Airlines (2)

Air New Zealand Link operated by Eagle Airways (1)

Air New Zealand Link operated by Air Nelson (1)

Air New Zealand (11)

Hawaiian Airlines (4)

Virgin Australia (SE Asia) operated by Virgin Australia International Airlines (5)

Air New Zealand Link operated by Mount Cook Airline (1)

Sounds Air (2)

Air France (4)

United Express operated by ExpressJet (1)

American Eagle operated by ExpressJet (1)

American Eagle operated by Mesa Airlines (1)

United Express operated by Trans States Airlines (1)

United Airlines (1)

Brussels Airlines (1)

Ryanair (1)

Alitalia operated by Alitalia CityLiner (1)

Batik Air (1)

Citilink (1)

HOP! operated by Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne (2)

HOP! operated by Brit Air (2)

Air Europa Express (1)

Volotea (1)

Virgin Australia operated by Virgin Australia International Airlines (4)

NAM Air (1)

Indonesia AirAsia (1)

AirAsia (1)

Malaysia Airlines (1)

Delta Air Lines (13)

Delta Connection operated by SkyWest Airlines (1)

Australian Domestic flights (in rough order of travel) - airline and general aviation

YSBK - YCBA/return

YSBK - YRYL/return

YRYL - YCBA/return

YCBA - SYD

DBO - SYD/return

YCBA - Tilpa, New South Wales/return

SYD - YRYL

YCBA - YWLG/return

YSBK - DGE - YCBA

YCBA - YYNG/return

YCBA - YCUA/return

YSBK - YWRN - YCBA

YCBA - BNE/return

SYD - YKMP

YKMP - YCBA

SYD - YWOL/return

SYD - YMND/return

YSBK - DBO - YCBA

CBR - SYD

YSBK - YCNK/return

SYD - MEL/return

YSBK - YSRI/return

YSBK - ABX - YWGT - YMMB

YMMB - YTYA - AVV

AVV - YMMB/return

AVV - ABX - YSBK

YSBK - YHOX/return

YSBK - YSCN/return

YSBK - WGA/return

SYD - BNE

YBAF - YSBK

BNE - PPP/return

YSBK - YSNW/return

YSBK - YWLM/return

YSNW- SYD

DGE - YCWR

YCWR - YSBK

YSBK - YMNG/return

SYD - TSV/return

SYD - AVV/return

YSBK - TMW

SYD - ADL

YPED - YSBK

YSBK - PKS/return

YSBK - MYA/return

YWBN - Luskintyre Airfield/return

SYD - OOL/return

YSBK - BHS/return

SYD - BNK/return

YSBK - TRO - YWLM - YSBK

SYD - WGA/return

SYD - PER/return

SYD - BHS/return

SYD - GFF/return

SYD - NRA/return

SYD - MYA/return

SYD - LSY - BNK - SYD

SYD - MIM/return

SYD - HBA/return

HBA - MEL/return

MEL - BWT/return

MEL - BNE/return

MEL - MQL/return

HBA - DPO/return

HBA - BNE/return

HBA - CBR

CBR - LST

BNE - TMW/return

CBR - NTL/return

MEL - PER/return

CBR - NBR/return

NTL - BNE

NTL - SYD

SYD - DGE/return

PER - BNE

CBR - TMW/return

CBR - OOL

SYD - ARM/return

YSBK - OAG/return

SYD - WTB/return

SYD - CNS/return

BNE - YSBK

YSBK - YMOR/return

SYD - TMW

BNE - CNS/return

SYD - DRW/return

Flights outside Australia

1990 SYD - SIN - CPH - AAR; BLL - SEN/return; AAR - CPH - SIN - SYD

1991 SYD - MEL - BKK - FRA - HAM; HAM - FRA - BKK - SYD

2000 SYD - DUD; HLZ - SYD

2002 SYD - LAX; LAX - LHR; MAN - CDG; ORY - BCN; BCN - IST; IST - LHR - JNB; JNB - SYD

2003 SYD - CHC/return

2006 SYD - HKG - HEL; HEL - IVL; HVG - HFT - TOS; OSL - LHR; LGW - KEF; RKV - VEY/return; KEF - LGW/LHR - LYS; MUC - STN; LHR - ORD - SFO; SFO - SYD

2007 SYD - LAX - BNA/return

2008 SYD - LAX - TUS/return

MEL - DPS; DPS - LBJ; LBJ - DPS - JOG; JOG - DPS; DPS - MEL

2009 SYD - VLI; VLI - TAH/return; VLI - SYD

2010 MEL - HKG - LHR - BCN; BCN - SCQ; OPO - LGW; LHR - SIN - MEL

2011 MEL - AUH - MUC - VIE; VIE - INN; MUC - AUH - MEL

2012 PER - DPS/return

2013 SYD - SIN; SIN - LOP; LOP - DPS; DPS - PER

2014 MEL - HKG - BKK - DXB*; DXB - KMG - PVG; PVG - MEL

*Circuitous routing due to a volcanic eruption closing Indonesian airspace

2015 SYD - CHC; CHC - BHE; BHE - AKL - SYD

SYD - HNL - KNA; ITO - HNL; HNL - SYD

SYD - AKL; AKL - BNE - SYD

2016 SYD - DPS/return

SYD - SIN/return

2017 SYD - CHC; CHC - WLG - BHE; BHE - WLG - SYD

SYD - AUH - LHR; ORY - BOD; TLS - CDG - SYD

SYD - AKL - IAH - ICT; ICT - DFW - MAF/return; ICT - DEN - LAX - AKL - SYD

2018 SYD - DPS; DPS - BNE - SYD

SYD - AKL/return

SYD - AUH - BRU - TXL; SXF - TSF; LIN - NAP; FCO - AUH - CGK; HLP - MLG; SUB - DPS - SYD

SYD - AUH - CDG - BOD; BOD - LIL/return; BOD - ORY/return; BIO - MAD; MAD - BOD; BOD - CDG - AUH - SYD

2019 SYD - DPS; DPS - JOG/return; DPS - SYD

SYD - SIN - KUL; KUL - SDK/return; KUL - SIN - SYD

SYD - AKL/return

2020 SYD - LAX - ATL - ICT; ICT - ATL - PNS; VPS - ATL - ICT; ICT - ATL - DAY/return; ICT - MSP - LAX - SYD

Joyflight locations

Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia

Kaikoura, New Zealand

Rhône Valley, Southern France

Blenheim, New Zealand

Fox Glacier, New Zealand

Watt's Bridge, Queensland, Australia

The Twelve Apostles, Victoria, Australia

Corio Bay, Victoria, Australia

Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia

Island of Hawai'i, Hawaii, USA

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Maritime journeys

Cook Strait Ferry (Interislander) New Zealand, northbound

Norway's Hurtigruten from Tromsø to Svolvær

Moskenes, Lofoten Islands, Norway to Bodø, Norway

Bass Strait Ferry Australia, both directions

My images

I have been taking photographs of aircraft for almost 30 years and have a reasonably large collection (believe me when I say there are people out there with much bigger collections than mine); I estimate that it is about 30,000 photos, of which about two thirds are digital images - the rest were taken on colour film. I still prefer film, but I have to admit that digital images are easier to work with; I sometimes take a photo of an aircraft with my film camera then take a digital photo as well. The images I have uploaded for use in articles are below.

Unedited images

None of these images have been treated or altered in any way:

EMBRAER EMB-120 Brasilia VH-EEB	Israeli Aircraft Industries 1124 Westwind VH-AJJ	Fairchild SA227-AT Expediter VH-EEO	Piper PA31 Navajo VH-BTD
Canadair (Conroy conversion) CL-44-0 Skymonster 9G-LCA	Boeing 737-200Adv. VH-OBN	de Havilland D.H.82 Tiger Moth VH-DHV	Short SC.5 Belfast RP-C8020
de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Mk. 3a Drover "VH-FBC"	SAAB 340B Plus VH-ZLA	Piper PA31-350 Chieftain VH-DVR	Beechcraft 1900D Airliner VH-RUI
Avions de Transport Régional ATR 42-300 VH-TOQ	Cessna 208B Grand Caravan VH-UZY	Fairchild SA227-AT Merlin IVB VH-UZA	Beechcraft D50E Twin Bonanza (Excalibur conversion) N14VU
SAAB 340A VH-EKT	Fairchild SA227-AC Metro III VH-EET	Fairchild SA227-DC Metro 23 VH-VEU	Beechcraft B100 King Air N350TJ
Boeing 727-100 (freighter conversion) RP-C8017	Short SC.5 Belfast RP-C8020	Boeing 737-200Adv. VH-OZD	Beechcraft B100 King Air N100TW
Boeing 737-300 VH-INU	de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Mk. 2 Drover VH-DHM	Beechcraft B200T Super King Air VH-LAB	Beechcraft 200 Super King Air VH-SGV
Raytheon 390 Premier One N34GN	Israeli Aircraft Industries 1124 Westwinds VH-AJG, VH-KNS & VH-KNU	EMBRAER ERJ-170 VH-SWO	EMBRAER ERJ-170 VH-SWO
Beechcraft B200 King Air VH-MSH	Raytheon 390 Premier One VH-VHP	Beechcraft B300 King Air A32-348	Boeing 737-300 (freighter conversion) VH-XML
Piper PA31-350 Chieftain VH-LTW	Beechcraft J50 Twin Bonanza VH-BRH	Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-27 Sabre A94-901	de Havilland Canada DHC-8-202 Dash 8 VH-LCL
Pine Air Super V N3124V	Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-16 Wirraway VH-BFF/"A20-653"	Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-13 Boomerang VH-MHR/"A46-122"	Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Model 340 (Convair 580 conversion) VH-PDL
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Model 440 (Convair 580 conversion) N141FL	Ryan Aeronautical Corporation STM VH-RSY	Beechcraft E18S (Hamilton Westwind III conversion) N432U	Israeli Aircraft Industries 1124 Westwind VH-AJV
Israeli Aircraft Industries 1124A Westwind II VH-KNR	Boeing 727-200 (freighter conversion) VH-DHE	British Aerospace 146-200 VH-NJG	Bombardier DHC-8-402 Dash Eight Q400 VH-QOC
Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream IV-SP N477QS	Raytheon Hawker 800XP CS-DNU	Gulfstream Aerospace G300 A6-RJA	Pilatus PC-12/45 VH-FGS
Boeing 737-300 ZK-JNN	Beechcraft B300 King Air 350 A32-426	Piper PA-42-720 Cheyenne III VH-NMA	British Aerospace 146-300QT VH-NJF
Fokker F28 Mk. 0100 Fokker 100 VH-FKF	Aero Commander 500U Shrike Commander VH-YJU	Kaman K-Max N267KA	Boeing Vertol BV-107 II P2-CHE
Airbus Industrie A320-232 VH-VND	Beechcraft B300 Super King Air 350 VH-FIX	de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 VH-QQC	EMBRAER EMB-110P1 Bandeirante VH-TLH
Jetstream Aircraft 3206 Jetstream 32 VH-OTD	Boeing 767-300ER N592HA	Cessna 441 Conquest II VH-TAZ	EMBRAER ERJ-170 VH-ZHC
Boeing 737-700 VH-VBY	Airbus Industrie A319-115 VH-VHD	CASA 212-400 VH-VHA	Pilatus PC-12/45 VH-FGT
de Havilland Canada DHC-8-201 Dash 8 VH-TQG	Dassault Falcon 900C VH-PPD	Dornier 328-100 VH-PPJ	Fairchild SA227-AC Metro III VH-SEZ
Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream IV-SP ZK-KFB	Lockheed L382G-44K-30 Hercules N406LC	Douglas DC-3 (AMI DC-3TP conversion) ZS-OJJ	Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-28 Ceres "VH-WOT"
Cessna 172P Skyhawk VH-RWV	Fokker F27 Mk. 50 Fokker 50 PK-TSO	Rockwell Commander 114 VH-RNS	Rockwell Commander 114 VH-ZWM
Rockwell Commander 112A VH-SLN	Bombardier CL-600-2B16 Challenger 604 A37-001	AugustaWestland AW139 VH-SYJ	Bristol 170 Freighter "A81-1"
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III A41-207	EMBRAER EMB-145 VH-SZH	Airbus Industrie A330-343X 9M-XXA	Boeing 747-400F N415MC
Cessna 441 Conquest II VH-LEM	Douglas EC-24A BuNo. 163050	Avions de Transport Régional ATR 72-500 YJ-AV72	Cessna 411A VH-MWJ
Lockheed C-130K Hercules C.1 XV200	Dornier Do 328-100 G-BWIR	Bombardier DHC-8-402 LX-LGE	Boeing 737-800 VH-XZJ
Piper PA-44-180 VH-OXA	Eurocopter EC120B VH-VCC	de Havilland Canada DHC-8-311 Dash 8 VH-QQN	Airbus Industrie A320-232 9V-JSD
Hawker de Havilland PC-9/A A23-045	Jetstream Aircraft 4101 Jetstream 41 VH-TAH	Avions de Transport Régional ATR 72-500 9M-FYC	Gippsland Aeronautics GA-8 Airvan VH-VEX
Airbus Industrie A320-232 VH-VNR	Boeing E-7A Wedgetail A30-006	Boeing P-8A Poseidon BuNo. 168429	Boeing 717-200 VH-YQS
Cessna 404 Titan VH-WZM	Ryan YQM-98A R-Tern 72-1872	Cessna 525C CJ4 ZK-PGA	EMBRAER EMB-820C VH-HVA
Avions de Transport Régional ATR 42-300 VH-TOX	Jetstream Aircraft 3206 Jetstream 32 VH-NTL	British Aerospace 146-200QT VH-SFV	Jetstream Aircraft 3206 Jetstream 32 VH-OTD
Kingsford Smith Aviation Services KS-3 Cropmaster "VH-AJH"		Van's RV-4 VH-NOJ

Edited images

These images have been have been edited using Picasa software:

Dassault Falcon 20H Gardian 72	Airbus Industrie A320-232 VH-VQP	Bombardier DHC-8-402 Dash Eight Q400 VH-QOH	Boeing 737-800 VH-VUN
de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Mk. 2 Drover VH-DHM	Fokker F28 Mk. 0100 Fokker 100 VH-FNJ	Avions de Transport Régional ATR 42-200 PK-YRN	Fokker F27 Mk. 50 Fokker 50 PK-RAL
EMBRAER EMB 110P1 Bandeirante VH-TLH	Boeing 707-138 VH-XBA	Boeing 737-700 BBJ A36-001	Boeing 777-200ER HL7597
Beagle A.109 Airedale VH-UEH	Fairchild SA227-TT Merlin IIIC VH-RCI	Boeing 747-400BCF PH-MPP	Douglas DC-8-62 ZS-OSI
Boeing 737-300 (freighter conversion) ZK-TLA	Airbus Industrie A320-232 VH-VQH	Airbus Industrie A319-115 VH-VHD	Schweizer 269C VH-FUJ
Tupolev Tu-154M 101	Harbin Y-12 IV YJ-AV5	Harbin Y-12 IV YJ-AV5	GAF N22C VH-ATO
Saab 340A (freighter conversion) VH-EKT	Beechcraft 200T Super King Air N857GA	Hawker Beechcraft Hawker 400XP VH-NTX	Raytheon Aircraft 400A Beechjet VH-IPG
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MU-300 Diamond I N417KT	Piper PA-31P Pressurised Navajo VH-SGA	Piper PA-31P-350 Mojave VH-PGW	Boeing 737-800 VH-VXB
Piper PA-31 Navajo VH-XGL	Boeing 737-300 PK-AWU	Airbus Industrie A330-202 VH-EBD	Airbus Industrie A320-232 ZK-OJO
Griffon Lionheart N985CC	Bombardier CL-600-2B19 CRJ200LR N2305V	Saab 340BPlus N386AE	Boeing 717-200 N924ME
EMBRAER EMB 120ER N288SW	Lockheed C-130H-30 Hercules A-1317	Lockheed C-130H Hercules NZ7002	Aermacchi AL-60A1 VH-ELI
Sikorsky VH-60N White Hawk 163264	Grumman C-2A 162148	Airbus Industrie A340-300 CC-CQE	Boeing 747-400 9M-MPB
Boeing 747-400ER VH-OEJ Wunala Dreaming	Douglas DC-3 VH-ABR	Boeing 737-800 VH-YFC	Airbus Industrie A330-200 VH-XFB
Boeing 767-300 (freighter conversion) VH-EFR	Bombardier DHC-8-300Q OE-LTK	Dornier Do 228-200 TF-CSG	Fokker F27-100 PH-FHF
Airbus Industrie A318-100 G-EUNA	Lockheed C-121C Constellation VH-EAG	Lockheed VC-121A Constellation 48-0614	Cessna U-3A 58-2107
Piper U-11A Aztec 149067	Cessna 310B VH-REK	McDonnell Douglas MD-11F N288UP	Beechcraft B200C King Air VH-VAE
Avions de Transport Régional ATR 72-500 VH-FVI	Gulfstream Aerospace GVI N305CC	Diamond Aircraft Industries DA42 Twin Star VH-FNV	Boeing 474-400 VH-OJA
Boeing 474-400 VH-OJA	Boeing 474-400 VH-OJA	GippsAero GA10 VH-XGY	British Aircraft Eagle 2 VH-UTI
Douglas A-4K Skyhawk NZ6216	Douglas C-47B Dakota VH-EAF	Cesnna 525 Citation M2 N824MT	Avro RJ85 N355AC
British Aerospace 146-200 VH-SUF

Converted images

These images are digital versions of photos taken with a 35mm film SLR camera:

Fokker F27 Mk. 50 Fokker 50 VH-FNI	Canadair Challenger 600S N7JM	Boeing 737-500 921	Boeing 747-100 (freighter conversion) N672UP
Weatherly 620B VH-WEI	Weatherly 620B VH-WEI	Goair Trainer VH-BBR
Miles M.38 Messenger VH-ZZM	Gates Learjet 35A VH-SLD
	Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-18 Mustang VH-JUC	Fairchild SA227-DC Metro 23 VH-HWR	Saab 340B VH-CMH
		Saab 340A VH-KDP	Fairchild Swearingen SA226-TC Metro II VH-KGX
Government Aircraft Factory N22B Nomad A18-304	SB Lim-2 (licence-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI) VH-LSN	Beechcraft 65-B80 Queen Air VH-AEQ	Avro 652A Anson I VH-BAF
Douglas C-47B-35-DK Skytrain A65-95	Boeing 717 VH-VQF

Other images

Images other than those showing complete aircraft that I have uploaded to illustrate articles:

REX Saab 340 with caricature of MP Kay Hull	Detail of Embraer 170 tailplane	Mural painted on the fuselage of a REX Saab 340	Two Boeing 747 freighters at Qantas Freight's cargo-handling facility at Melbourne Airport	View of Hobart Airport in 2008
South Sydney Rabbitohs decal on the nose of a Virgin Blue Boeing 737	Nose of an Atlas Air Boeing 747 operating for Qantas	Lycoming LTIO-540 flat-six piston engine	New Zealand band the Headless Chickens reunited for a one-off concert in 2008	Virgin Blue Boeing 737 with special paint scheme to promote the movie Avatar
Continental IO-360 flat-six piston engine	Lycoming LIO-360 flat-four piston engine	Annunciator panel of a Cessna 441 Conquest II	Annunciator panel of a Cessna 441 Conquest II in close-up	Bristol Bloodhound missile
Boeing 727 freighters parked at DHL's facility at Sydney Airport	Pratt & Whitney R-1830 radial engine	Pratt & Whitney R-2000 radial engine	Blackburn Cirrus four-cylinder inverted-inline engine RHS	Blackburn Cirrus four-cylinder inverted-inline engine LHS
Wright R-3350 Turbo-Compound radial engine	de Havilland Gipsy Major four-cylinder inverted-inline engine	Walter M337 six-cylinder inverted-inline engine	Vrgin Australia Boeing 737 arrives at Sydney Airport to unveil the airline's new corporate identity	Retractable bomb rack of a Short Sunderland
Gun pack of a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17	Porsche PFM 3200 flat-six piston engine	Pratt & Whitney JFTD12 turbine engines	Piper Aztec fin and rudder	Pair of venturi tubes on the fuselage of a Piper Colt
Venturi tube detail	Venturi tube detail	Firewall on the engine nacelle of a Douglas C-47	Oleo torque link landing gear leg of a Piper Navajo	Spring steel landing gear leg of a Victa Airtourer
Trailing link landing gear with rubber discs in compression for shock absorption of a Mooney M20	Steel-tube landing gear leg of a Cessna Cardinal	Oleo trailing link landing gear leg of a Cessna 404	Devonport, Tasmania, Australia	Devonport Airport, Tasmania, Australia
Devonport Airport, Tasmania, Australia	Grumman Yankee horizontal stabiliser with elevator and pitch trim tab	Cessna 404 wing with aileron and roll trim tab	CAC Boomerang engine cowling showing cowl flaps	CAC Boomerang engine cowling showing cowl flaps
Strahan Airport, Tasmania, Australia	Strahan Airport, Tasmania, Australia	Strahan Airport, Tasmania, Australia	Passenger terminal at Griffith Airport, New South Wales, Australia	Rolls-Royce AE 3007 turbofan engine
Rolls-Royce AE 3007 turbofan engine	Rear fuselage detail of Qantas Boeing 747-400 City of Canberra	Rear fuselage and wing of Qantas Boeing 747-400 City of Canberra	Pratt & Whitney F117 turbofan engine	Underwater Locator Beacon for a flight recorder with a ballpoint pen for scale
Flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder in the rear equipment bay of an aircraft	Patient stretcher installation in an air ambulance aircraft	Renault 6Q10 six-cylinder inverted-inline engine	Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim, New Zealand	Detail view of Cessna Grand Caravan horizontal stabilizer with TKS fluid de-icing system holes with a rule for scale
Wing leading edge detail of a Cessna Citation Mustang showing inflatable de-ice boot	Propeller blade with TKS deice boot	Detail of propeller blade with TKS deice boot	Propeller with electric deice boots	Detail of propeller blade with electric deice boot
Dassault Falcon 50 centre engine S-duct	Detail of Dassault Falcon 50 centre engine S-duct	Detail of Dassault Falcon 50 centre engine S-duct	Detail of Dassault Falcon 50 centre engine S-duct with engine bypass fan visible	Refuelling boom of an Airbus A330 MRTT
Virgin Australia lounge at Melbourne Airport	AlliedSignal (Honeywell) turbine GTCP36-150 auxiliary power unit	AlliedSignal (Honeywell) turbine GTCP36-150 auxiliary power unit	Pratt & Whitney PW615 turbofan engine	Garmin GWX 68 radar unit
Semi-monocoque structure inside Cessna CitationJet rear fuselage	Garrett TFE731-4R turbofan engine	Garrett TFE731-4R turbofan engine	LLC (LCM-1E) landing craft inside HMAS Canberra	Passenger terminal at Bankstown Airport, New South Wales, Australia
University of NSW School of Aviation hangar, Bankstown Airport, New South Wales, Australia	Continental O-200-A engine	Continental O-200-A engine	Continental O-200-A engine	Cockpit Voice Data Recorder (CVDR)
Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport, Conroe, Texas, United States	Strother Field airport, Hackney, Kansas, United States	North Houston Airport, Porter Heights, Texas, United States	Ram air turbine on the forward fuselage of a Dassault Falcon 7X	Air traffic control tower, Bankstown Airport, New South Wales, Australia
Air traffic control tower, Bankstown Airport, New South Wales, Australia

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My videos

A bucket thrust reverser being deployed

Frequently Used Sources and External Links

Sources

Frawley, Gerald. The International Directory of Civil Aircraft 1997/98. Aerospace Publications, Fyshwick ACT 1997. ISBN 1 875671 26 9
Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II, Bracken Books, London, 1989. ISBN 1 85170 199 0
Phillips, Edward H. Beechcraft - Pursuit of Perfection, A History of Beechcraft Airplanes. Flying Books, Eagan, Minnesota 1992. ISBN 0-911139-11-7
Taylor, M. J. H. ed. Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation Studio Editions Ltd., London, 1989. ISBN 1 85170 324 1

External links

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