An Avro RJ85 in Cobham livery. (Daniel Foster)

New Cobham RJ85 delivered

December 2, 2014 0 comment

A new Arvo RJ85 for Cobham Aviation Services has arrived in Australia. The aircraft, registered G-CDYK and painted in the new Cobham colours, touched down at Adelaide shortly after midday on Monday. It will now undergo some maintenance work in Adelaide before it is ferried to Western Australia to start work flying to Gold Fields

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NSW Police helicopter PolAir 5. (NSW Police)

NSW Police aviation branch adds two aircraft

December 1, 2014 1 comment

NSW Police has added a Bell 412EPI and a Cessna Grand Caravan EX to its aviation support branch. Named PolAir 5 and PolAir 7, the pair was inducted into service at Bankstown Airport on Sunday, boosting the aviation support branch’s fleet to five helicopters and two fixed-wing aircraft. This content is available exclusively to Australian

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VH-OGM operates the last Qantas scheduled Boeing 767 service from Canberra. (Paul Sadler)

Canberra farewells the Qantas 767 as retirement nears

December 1, 2014 7 comment

Canberra Airport has said farewell to the Qantas Boeing 767 after the airline operated its last flight with the twin-aisle aircraft to the national capital on Sunday night. The countdown to the eventual exit of all 767-300ERs from the Qantas fleet on December 27 is well and truly underway, with the Flying Kangaroo down to five operating

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Jetgo's first RPT flight flown by an Embraer ERJ 135, lands at Gladstone Airport. (Gladstone Mayor Gail Sellers/Facebook)

Jetgo inaugural RPT service lands in Gladstone

December 1, 2014 6 comment

Jetgo’s first scheduled regular public transport (RPT) flight has landed at Gladstone Airport. Flight JG70 took off from Sydney Airport at 0610 local time on Monday bound for the Queensland port city, where it landed about 90 minutes later. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest

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Aviation journalist of the year Stewart Wilson with Cathay Pacific's Nelson Chin and Airservices' Rob Walker. (Seth Jaworski)

Stewart Wilson named Australia’s aviation journalist of 2014

December 1, 2014 1 comment

Stewart Wilson from Aero Australia has taken out the aviation journalist of the year for 2014 at the National Aviation Press Club awards, edging out Australian Aviation senior contributor Geoffrey Thomas who was named runner-up in that category. Thomas won two other awards at the presentation dinner, which took place in Sydney on Friday November

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A file image of a Fokker 50 in Virgin Australia livery. (Dave Parer)

Virgin receives WA gov’t OK for regional route reductions

November 28, 2014 6 comment

Virgin Australia has received approval from the West Australian government to reduce flights on regulated routes to four regional towns in the state’s south. As part of the changes due to be gradually introduced from December 5, the number of Perth-Albany flights will be cut to 15 per week, from 20 currently, while the Perth-Esperance route

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