Delays stretched from 30 minutes to an hour as at 9am on Sunday, though Airservices said the issues, caused by "short notice unplanned leave", were resolved by 11:30am. Civil Air, however, said it “emphatically rejects” the claims around leave.

ZK-NZD flew out of Alice Springs on 28 June, having been in long-term storage since September while its Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines were repaired, and operated its first commercial flight since last August on 30 June as NZ8 from Auckland to San Francisco.

The first of 12 three-carriage Siemens trains was unloaded at Port Kembla last week and trucked to the new Stabling and Maintenance Facility at Orchard Hills for assembly, having travelled 23,000 kilometres by ship from Vienna.

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The purpose-built facility will house the National Integrated Air and Missile Defence Ecosystem, designed to support next-generation IAMD systems and bolster Australia’s sovereign defence capability.

The high-performance single-engine, two-seater turboprop has been put up for sale by California aircraft seller Platinum Fighter Sales but is registered in Australia as VH-YMK and is being sold out of NSW.

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