London Heathrow Airport, Inner Ring West, Harmondsworth, London Borough of Hillingdon, Greater London, England, TW6 1DB, United Kingdom
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
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Traveller[1]: "the morning of August 16, 1989 ... the Boeing[6] 747-438 in Qantas colours ... carried the name City of Canberra, registration VH-OJA"; Airline Ratings[2]: "The marathon flight took 20 hours, 9 minutes and 5 seconds and set a new Federation Aeronautique Internationale distance record".On 16 August 1989 Qantas' first Boeing 747-400, VH-OJA City of Canberra, flew non-stop from London Heathrow to Sydney in 20 hours 9 minutes, setting FAI distance and speed records. It landed with under 900 kg of fuel to spare.
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