The Dash-8 is one of the more successful of several new commuter airliners that entered service in the 1980s.

It now flies with commuter airlines around the world and is standard equipment on Qantas’s regional routes in Australia.

Development of the Dash-8 began in September 1980, the prototype made its maiden flight on 20 June 1983 and they began entering airline service at the end of 1984.

It was the first of several new commuter airliners that bought a new era of efficiency to regional air services around the world.

In Australia many regional airlines put them into service and when Qantas consolidated its various commuter airlines it also standardised on Dash-8s.

There are a several versions of the Dash-8, the 100 series being the first and shortest.

This model represents VH-TQT flying with QantasLink in 2005.

Hobbycraft 1/72 kit with Hawkeye decals completed by Leigh Edmonds in August 2005.