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Gulfstream says its range of business jets satisfies the time-poor frequent traveller’s need for speed. “If a CEO wastes 10 minutes he could live to be a billion years old and never make up that 10 minutes,” said Gulfstream regional senior vice-president for international sales Roger Sperry at the Avalon Airshow this week. This content

Toll Group signed a contract for eight AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters in a ceremony at the Avalon Airshow on Wednesday. Toll will use the aircraft to service its newly-won NSW Air Ambulance contract to operate aeromedical retrieval operations from Sydney’s Bankstown Airport as well as Orange, Wollongong and Canberra. The new helicopters, for NSW’s newly formed Helicopter

Fancy a 25-year-old Boeing 757-200 previously owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and used to fly the Portland Trail Blazers around the US during the National Basketball Association season? Then bring $30 million or so down to the Avalon Airshow. The aircraft, with Bermuda registration VQ-BTF, has been on static display during the six-day event

Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss says the creation of one air traffic management system for the whole country will be of particular benefit for airports that handle both military and civilian aircraft. The federal government has named Thales as the successful supplier to commence work on the Onesky project, which aims to combine both the

Pilatus is displaying a full-scale fuselage and cabin mock-up of its new PC-24 ‘super versatile jet’ (SVJ) at Avalon. The company says it has created the new super versatile category for the jet as it does not fit into any of the current light or light-medium categories. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation

Airservices has set up two temporary control towers at the Avalon Airshow and brought in extra staff and equipment to safely manage the arrival and departure of hundreds of aircraft during the six-day event. The nation’s air traffic manager has about 20 staff on hand at Avalon across both the main control tower and two