The $200 million Deep Maintenance and Modification Facility is expected to facilitate the specialist maintenance of the Australian Defence Force’s Boeing 737 variant military aircraft.
VH-X4F, which touched down in Canberra on 3 April, is the sixth A220 in the Qantas fleet, and flew passengers for the first time as QF1271 from Canberra to Melbourne on Monday.
RAAF aviators worked alongside personnel from the US and the UK, with six Lightning II aircraft deployed to support the exercise for the first time.