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The training program will see a new intake of pilots will this week undergo the final stages of their training to fly the fifth-gen fighter at RAAF Base Amberley and Rockhampton.
The aircraft, VH-OQA, was stored in the Victorville desert boneyard during the pandemic before flying to LAX in September, and now joins VH-OQG in receiving a cabin upgrade in the UAE.
It comes after the Flying Kangaroo moved to outsource ground handling operations at the 10 Australian airports where it was still running them in-house, including Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne.
The incident killed one man – who has yet to be publicly identified – and saw the five-seat Bell 206 roll before descending and crashing into a riverbank near Maitland.
The ‘graduation’ was marked by flypasts of Pilatus PC-21 and Hawk 127 training aircraft and a parade led by the Western Australian Police Pipe Band on 4 November.
The new data backs up industry-wide figures released by the Department of Transport that suggests Australia’s international recovery is stalling, despite domestic bouncing back to near-normal levels.
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