QANTAS NAMES NEW 737-800 “EUDUNDA”

ADELAIDE, 19 May 2005: Qantas has today officially named its latest Boeing 737-800 aircraft Eudunda in a special ceremony attended by Eudunda’s Councillors, members of the Chamber of Commerce and tourism associations.
 

Qantas Regional General Manager South Australia Martin Port said the aircraft with the registration number VH-VYD is the airline’s 25th Boeing 737-800 and the first to arrive from the Seattle plant this year.

“Eudunda arrived in Australia earlier this week and I’m delighted to say that it will begin Australian domestic services from today.”

Mr Port said that the Qantas Group had an established program of naming all aircraft in the Group’s fleet after Australian towns.
“The naming program recognises that the Qantas Group carry customers from towns and regional centres right across Australia,” he said.

Mr Port presented a framed print of Eudunda at the Boeing Seattle plant to the Chairman of the Regional Council of Goyder, Laurie Sullivan, at the Eudunda Club today to commemorate the naming.

The Boeing 737-800 aircraft is 39.5 metres in length, cruises at over 850 kilometres per hour and seats 168 customers in a two-class configuration.
 

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Eudunda is high in the ranges beyond the Barossa Valley, about 1½ hour’s drive from Adelaide. The Eudunda area was originally named Eudundacowi or Jadundakawi by the Nadjuri Aboriginal people who lived by the springs which inspired the name. Eudundacowi literally translated means 'water out of the ground'.