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The Victorian government has identified the preferred route for a $260 million rail line linking Melbourne’s Avalon Airport to the existing Melbourne-Geelong track. A spur rail line of about 5.5km that begins between Lara and Little River stations on the Melbourne-Geelong rail line was identified as the most preferred option, according to the Avalon Airport

The MQ-4C Triton has completed an 11-hour, 3,290nm transcontinental flight from the Northrop Grumman facility in Palmdale, California, to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, where the unmanned aircraft system (UAS) is due to begin its next phase of testing. The aircraft flew the same flightpath as was used to transfer the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator

Nextant Aerospace has completed its first sale in New Zealand, annoucing on Friday that it had sold a 400XTi quick-change air ambulance to Skyline Aviation for operations with its New Zealand Air Ambulance Service operation. New Zealand Air Ambulance Service directors Mike and Annabel Toogood said the Nextant 400XTi would be the first fully-accredited intensive care jet ambulance

  Qatar Airways is the 12th and newest operator of the Airbus A380 after taking delivery of its first of 10 double-decker jumbos on order during a ceremony in Hamburg on Wednesday. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or

Air New Zealand’s second Boeing 787-9 has completed a second day of flying over Washington State as the aircraft enters the final stages of its preparations before delivery. Flight tracking website flightaware.com shows ZK-NZF took off from Snohomish County Airport in Everett – the location of Boeing’s 787 production line – at 1052 local time on Wednesday and

The federal government’s move to lift the terror alert level to high will result in a bolstered presence from law enforcement agencies at airports and may cause longer wait times for travellers and additional security checks for staff, Australia’s security bodies say. Airports and airlines, however, have not been asked to do anything extra as a