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National Jet Systems Wins Coastwatch Contract:

Adelaidebased National Jet Systems (through subsidiary company Surveillance Australia)has been awarded the nine year, $26.4m fixed wing Coastwatch contract. A smaller contract worth $830,000 to provide helicopter surveillance of the Torres Strait has been won by Reef Helicopters of Cairns. Surveillance Australia takes over from incumbent contractor Skywest in 1996 and is purchasing 12 new aircraft to fill the important role of covering northern Australia against drug smugglers, illegal immigrants and breaches of Customs, fishing and quarantine laws. The fleet will comprise six new Britten Norman BN-2B-20 Islanders for close-in (littoral) visual work plus three Reims F406 Caravan II turboprop twins and three DHC Dash 8s for medium and longer range patrols. The Dash 8s are of the new -200 ‘hot and high’ variant. The F406s and Dash 8s will be fitted with Texas Instruments APS/LW surveillance radar and the Dash 8s will also be have forward looking infrared (FLIR) and low light television (LLTV) equipment installed. A second hand Rockwell Shrike Commander will also be used to patrol the maritime park off Cairns. The new aircraft and equipment will reportedly give Coastwatch a 250% increase in capability for only a 30% greater cost. Reef Helicopters will use a specially configured extended endurance Bell 412 for its contract from next year, replacing Chopperline’s Aerospatiale Squirrel.

Fastest Growing Airports:

Brisbane, Perth and Darwin airports are Australia’s fastest growing in terms of international passenger movements in the 1993/94 period according to figures produced by the Australian Customs Service. The rates of growth for the three airports in the 12 months between July 1993 and June 1994 were: Brisbane 12.4% (1.7 million passengers), Perth 10.3% (1.1 million) and Darwin 24.7% (133,685 passengers). In terms of numbers of overall international passengers, Sydney remains well ahead with 5.1 million in 1993/94 followed by Melbourne (2.0 million), Brisbane, Perth and Cairns (643,367). Cairns itself recorded growth of 10% during the year.

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