Year: 2018

Virgin Australia has appointed former Chief of the Defence Force Sir Angus Houston to the board, while Mark Vaile has resigned after 10 years as a director.

Australia’s national space agency will be based in Adelaide, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and South Australia Premier Stephen Marshall have announced.

Two unions representing about 1,000 Air New Zealand staff say they plan to strike for three days before Christmas if no agreement is reached on a new deal.

Auction aircraft to stay here The auction discussed in the previous edition of Australian Aviation is over and the good news is that the aircraft under the hammer will stay in Australia. Prime among them was Hawker Sea Fury Mk II, VH-SHF. The other warbirds were North American T-28B, VH-SHT, T-28D Trojan, VH-AVC and a

A captain shows how his west was won The origins of Virgin Australia Regional Airlines can be traced to the 1960s when Carnarvon Air Taxi was founded. Quickly expanding from its Carnarvon roots to become a significant regional carrier, the airline was known for decades as Skywest. Skywest established a robust network across the vast

Questions emerge from the pilot training race The training race is up and running with the major airlines setting up their own flight schools against the backdrop of stark statistics about the pilot shortage. That poses two key questions beyond getting students into a right hand seat: what types of aircraft will be used to