Air mof_ - a Boeing 737 to yourself!

[Drakecula]

I found the plane by midday on the first day. Thought I might have been a winner and couldnt tell anyone! Turns out the first person found it right away at 9am!

Where was it?

 

[Ktan89]

I found the plane by midday on the first day. Thought I might have been a winner and couldnt tell anyone! Turns out the first person found it right away at 9am!

..inside job
at least you found it though, I wasted a lot of working hours on this with no result haha.

 

[Ktan89]

Where was it?

I went past it, apparently you have to zoom right in for it to show up.

 

[RooFlyer]

So how does that fit into these clues posted above?

Rhymes with Doug, not near Snug.

Air mof_ is in the north-west of the state, right next to a fairly significant body of water.

 

[teamhamsandwich]

Clue: Stray a little from Air mof_’s location and you might catch conjunctivitis.
Answer: Muckeye Creek feeds Lake Mikany.

Narawntapu National Park
Clue: When the wind is right, anyone standing where Air mof_ is can very faintly hear… engines? And while some might be cars, others definitely aren’t.
Answer: A tip (earthmovers) and a go-kart track (go-karts) sit a little way to the north of the plane's location.

Barnbougle
Clue: You could drive to Air mof_’s location, but you’d need to get someone's permission for the last bit.
Answer: Because it's in someone's paddock.

Derby
Clue: Road Trip: Let’s go on a little trip. Trace your route as you go, then draw a straight line between where you finish and where you started. The area you’ve enclosed can be eliminated from your enquiries. Air mof_ ain’t there.
Start at a Prime Minister north-east of here. Head south to France’s beautiful marshes. Keep rolling. Pass silica-strewn Vermillion William. Stick to the main drag, until you turn towards a wrong puncture. When you reach a major junction, flee to the option Lemon would, but continue past it. Eventually, you’ll start thinking you’re in Scotland. Stop there.
Answer: Prime Minister: Gladstone. Beautiful marshes are beaux marais (or thereabouts) in French, so Beaumaris. Vermillion William is Redbill Beach in Bicheno. A wrong puncture is Lake Leake. Liz Lemon from 30 Rock wished to flee to the Cleve, so Cleveland. Perth is also a place in Scotland. This cuts a big chunk of the north-east out.

Flinders Island
Clue: You stand as much chance of finding Air mof_ on Flinders as you do of reeling in a salmon at North West River.
Answer: This is a reference to the location description for Flinders (although it in itself may not be accurate, apparently it's a good spot but your results may vary).

Boat Harbour
Clue: Elvis is dead. Don’t bother looking at anything with his name on it.
Answer: This eliminates places with King in the name.

Promised Land (Tasmazia)
Clue: That singer, the one Jon confused. Maybe look up her ladies. Connecting one to that chalice could be valuable.
Answer: The singer is Joni (Mitchell), which you get by taking the letters of Jon and an 'i' (from the reference to one, which gives you a Roman numeral) and shuffle/combining them ('confused'). Her ladies refers to a song of hers with a woman's name in it, which is 'Edith and the Kingpin' from her 1975 slow-burner The Hissing of Summer Lawns. There's a place called Edith Creek a little to the south-west of the plane's location, and if you draw a straight line between it and Stanley (which you get from the reference to a chalice, which relies on you having solved the clue that refers to the Stanley Cup) you go bloody close to the plane, if not straight over it.


Southwest National Park
Clue: This entire competition is definitely not part of an illuminati-based conspiracy theory, so don’t bother looking anywhere near the secret glass pyramids we’ve erected (and filled with pizzas) on Bruny Island.
Answer: Straight clue that also keeps things spicy for the conspiracy-theorists who like making up crazy cough about Mona.

Beaconsfield
Clue: Phone it, Cally, for a vague place to start looking: some booze, a noise, a range and a dance.
Answer: The first part is a coughisation of 'phonetically', and the listed things refer to letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet that spell WEST, because the plane is in the western half of Tassie. Whiskey (booze), echo (noise), sierra (mountain range), tango (dance).

wukalina Walk
Clue: Gretzky holds half a decent place to keep in mind.
Answer: Wayne Gretzky won the NHL's Stanley Cup multiple times, so half of it is Stanley, which is near the plane and also ties in with the convoluted Joni Mitchell clue.

City Park, Launceston
Clue: I hear it’s not worth looking for Air mof_ around any negative-cough minks.
Answer: Hear' implies a homophone to look for, and a mink is a fur. Negativity is no, and cough means put it at the back, which gives fur-no, which sounds like Furneaux, the group of islands off the north-east coast. The plane wasn't there, but it's a beautiful place to visit.

Tarraleah
Clue: Roses are red, my dog’s name is Doug, you won’t find Air mof_ anywhere around…
Answer: Snug.

Ross
Clue: All this talk of construction has reminded us that there's an interesting man-made something quite close to where Air mof_ is hidden. It's not a sandstone bridge. Or a sandstone pub.
Answer: There's a dam wall just near the plane.


King Island
Clue: A star is drawn: Find five points to draw a (slightly lopsided) star. You won't find Air mof_ in the area inside the star.
1: Ross? Glenn? One more?
2: Veni, vidi, vitrum vinum.
3: Good ol’ Liz really digs this place, too?
4: Every day when you're walking down the street, everybody that you meet… Ships a slightly liberal point of view.
5: Please, Matt. Please say it. Say it rn.
Answer:
1. Glengarry, from the '92 Mamet film (or the original '84 play, you nerd) Glengarry Glen Ross.
2. Bad latin for 'I came, I saw, wine glass'. Which is Wineglass Bay.
3. Old Liz (the queen) and a digging reference gets you the lovely mining town of Queenstown.
4. This is the beginning of the theme tune to the cartoon 'Arthur', and a ship reference plus liberality (politically left) gives you left + ship, which is port. Port Arthur.
5. This is a reference to that not-very-good meme where the Piranha Plant from Mario is like 'say sike right now'. This plus Matt leads to Maatsuyker Island off the south coast.
The star this draws knocks out a big part of the state.

Table Cape
Clue: Axes.
Answer: There's a town called Tomahawk on the north-east coast. If you start at it and move on a direct horizontal axis (axes being the plural) to the west you eventually hit the plane. This was probably the single most-useful clue in the set.

New Norfolk
Clue: Certain activities are prohibited in the area around where Air mof_ is hidden.
Answer: Lake Mikany is a water reservoir, so motorboating is prohibited.

Bruny Island
Clue: The Air mof_ crew could probably do some good fishing near where the plane is hidden while they wait to be found.
Answer: Lake Mikany is a pretty solid spot for fly-fishing (it was stocked with 8000 Rainbow Trout in November 2015).

Mount Field
Clue: Sandy siblings make a beeline for Spiegelman’s muddled tome. They come close.
Answer: Sandy siblings are Sisters Beach, and Spiegelman's muddled tome is his Pulitzer-winning graphic novel (please read it) Maus. Shuffle those letters (because it says muddled) and you get USMA, which is the US Military Academy, more commonly known as West Point. There's a place on the west coast with this name (near Marrawah). If you draw a beeline between West Point and Sisters Beach it runs just below the plane's location.

Bothwell
Clue: Join the dots: Solve all four of these clues then join the places to box out an area you can ignore.
1: Tawny Kevin Kline classic (ish)?
2: Kinda sounds like a bear ate my headgear.
3: Don’t you have enough? It seems like you have enough.
4: Left-handed pugilist meets Earl Grey.
Answer:
1. Tawny is Port, and the Kevin Kline classic is Dave. The 'ish' is to get you to chuck a 'y' on the end, giving Port Davey.
2. The 'sounds like' indicates there's a homophone to look out for. Headgear is the straighter part of the clue, and when you say 'bear ate' aloud you say beret. A beret is a Frenchman's Cap.
3. Plenty.
4. A left-handed boxer is a southpaw, and Earl Grey is a tea Answer: Southport.