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Headlines
The Historical Aviation Restoration Society has delayed the ferry flight of an ex-Qantas Boeing 707 owned by John Travolta to calendar 2020.
![From the archives: Boeing 707 City of Canberra comes home](https://worldofaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/707_VH-XBA_SYD_16DEC06_AMcL-6_1170.jpg)
Airlines
This story from the Australian Aviation archives is from March 2007 and covers the homecoming of the first Qantas jet, Boeing 707 City of Canberra VH-XBA.
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Airlines
Qantas entered the jet era on July 29 1959 when a Boeing 707-138B took off from Sydney bound for San Francisco via Nadi in Fiji and Honolulu, Hawaii.