Qantas 787‑9 in 100 years livery

Qantas’s Boeing 787-9 VH-ZNJ, the Dreamliner painted in the airline’s “Qantas 100” centenary scheme, was back at Los Angeles International Airport on April 28. (flightradar24.com) Flightradar24 lists the aircraft as a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner operated by “Qantas (100th Anniversary Livery)” and shows it scheduled into Los Angeles as QF93 from Melbourne. (flightradar24.com) The same jet also appeared at Los Angeles on April 21 as QF15 from Brisbane, according to the aircraft’s recent flight history. A Los Angeles spotter video posted last week identified the aircraft, route and registration as VH-ZNJ. (flightradar24.com) (tiktok.com) VH-ZNJ is named “Longreach,” and the paint scheme was created for Qantas’s centenary program. Qantas said the special livery would be seen at airports including Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and London. (flightradar24.com) (qantasnewsroom.com.au) The design is a flying timeline. Qantas said the Dreamliner carries every Qantas logo since 1920, while Flightradar24 described a fuselage marked with the celebratory “Qantas 100” imprint. (qantasnewsroom.com.au) (flightradar24.com) Qantas unveiled the aircraft in October 2019 as it began a 12-month centenary celebration tied to the carrier’s 100th year in 2020. The airline said the livery was one of three centenary projects announced alongside a commemorative $1 coin and a touring exhibition. (qantasnewsroom.com.au) (flightradar24.com) That helps explain why the airplane still stands out on the ramp six years later. Most airline special schemes mark a route launch or a short campaign; this one doubles as a rolling history of a carrier founded as Queensland and Northern Territories Aerial Services in 1920. (flightradar24.com) (qantasnewsroom.com.au) At Los Angeles, that makes VH-ZNJ more than another long-haul arrival. It is one of Qantas’s regular 787-9s, but the centenary jet turns a scheduled QF93 or QF15 into a spotter event whenever “Longreach” shows up. (flightradar24.com) (tiktok.com)