Year: 2023

In its Australian Aviation Network Overview 2023, the air traffic control body said there has been a 16.3 per cent increase in average daily drone flights in FY2023 vs FY2022. December 2022 was the highest month for detections, with 5,258 drone activities spotted near airports.

The partnership, which began in 2013 and was re-authorised in 2018, was slated to expire on 31 March 2023, but was granted interim authorisation days before it was up, allowing it to continue while the competition watchdog made a more substantive determination.

Ella Watson from Western Australia, and Spencer Holmes and Joshua Kilgour from Queensland, will each receive up to $5,000 to go towards earning their Civil Aviation Safety Regulation (CASR) Part 66 engineer licences.

The 21 RAAF members conducted the training with Indonesian Air Force F-16 pilots out of Denpasar Airport earlier in August, operating a KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport Aircraft.

The low-cost carrier is set to name the new plane ‘Matilda’ after the Matildas football team, which reached the FIFA Women’s World Cup semi-final this year. It will join Bonza’s four other 737 MAX 8 aircraft, which are nicknamed ‘Bazza’, ‘Shazza’, ‘Sheila’ and ‘Malc’.

The Leonardo AW139 was conducting a late-night medical rescue at Manly in May 2021 when its tail rotor struck a small tree, though the crew did not notice until after they had already discontinued the approach and landed at another site a kilometre away.