Second aircraft to set out on a journey half way around the world was the last airworthy Short Belfast G-HLFT (c/n SH.l819) now registered 9L-LDQ. Sold to Transpacific Pty of Mascot following the closure of HeavyLift Cargo Airlines in the UK, the aircraft had been parked at Prestwick for a year. She was test flown during an eighteen minute long flight on the evening of Sunday September 14. Presumably this aerial adventure revealed no alarming snags, as preparations then went ahead to set forth on the long journey to Australia. Although planned to depart on the morning of September 16, the Belfast eventually took off from Prestwick at 1645. Climbing to her initial cruising level of 17,000 feet, the mighty leviathan tracked south over England, France and the Mediterranean on course for a night stop at Malta - an initial leg of six hours' duration cruising at 300 mph.

On the next day the Belfast headed eastwards from Malta bound for Muscat for another night stop after a ten-hour long flight. On the morning of September 18 the Belfast departed from Muscat en-route to Colombo. However, some four hours into the flight the crew had to shut down the no. 2 Rolls-Royce Tyne engine after it ran out of oil. Once the engine had been shut down, the generators then came off line, leaving the aircraft without electrical power. Fortunately, a successful emergency landing was made at Goa, and as the aircraft had a large supply of spares aboard, the crew were soon able to rectify the problem. With her oil and fuel tanks fully replenished, the Belfast took off from Goa on September 20 and then set course for Colombo, touching down there after a two hour 55 minute long flight. The remainder of the delivery flight was uneventful, with the Belfast staging to Bali in a time of eight hours 35 minutes, and thence Brisbane, with the last leg being the longest flight of the entire journey at 10 hours 10 minutes flight time. The callsign "HeavyLift 923" was only used for the very last leg into Brisbane, where the aircraft touched down at ten o'clock local time on the evening of September 21.