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Qantas Inaugural Flight

Qantas Empire Airways landed a Boeing 707 aircraft at HNL enroute to Sydney, Australia, on July 31, 1959. It was the first jet flight into Honolulu. The flight from San Francisco took four hours and 50 minutes

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First 707 jet flight into Honolulu International Airport by Qantas, July 31, 1959.
First 707 jet flight into Honolulu International Airport by Qantas, July 31, 1959.
First 707 jet flight into Honolulu International Airport by Qantas, July 31, 1959.

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