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Australia and New Zealand Aviation Media Awards 2016 Presented by the Australasian Aviation Press Club and Australian Aviation The Australasian Aviation Press Club held its annual awards at Sydney’s Intercontinental Hotel on November 25. There were more than 168 entries in 2016, with the judges saying the standard was extremely high with many close calls

10 Years Ago Boeing Australia Limited announced on January 5 that it had received a contract to provide reconnaissance and surveillance services with the ScanEagle UAV to the Australian Army. The services provided by ScanEagle are currently in use in southern Iraq by Australian soldiers operating with the Overwatch Battle Group (West)-2 in Operation Catalyst.

Aviation arrivals and departures across the region Qantas Group news In this issue we report the delivery of an A321-200 x 2 to Jetstar, A320-200 to Jetstar Pacific and Fokker 100 to QantasLink. Qantas ferried 747-438ER VH-OEI into Melbourne from Hong Kong as QF6014 on November 15 after completing its planned maintenance (Traffic/December). This content

Firefighting Black Hawk arrives for fire season Pictured is the official media AS350B3 Squirrel from Specialist Helicopters following Hyundai Motosport’s i20 driven by Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul from Belgium. tiah twomey Scone Airport-based Pay’s Helicopters is bringing an ex-US Army UH-60A Black Hawk to Australia for the bushfire season to demonstrate the helicopter’s value

Did you take that all on board? In the aviation game knowledge is a vital substance, no different from fuel in your tanks. As students we listen and hopefully take in all the information on aviation and flying that we can absorb. A good instructor will know when the student has taken in enough for

Quite a large New Allocations section this issue bolstered by five Air New Zealand Beech 1900D commuters that were ferried from Hamilton, New Zealand, to Bankstown during October for storage prior to sale. Air New Zealand took delivery of 18 Beech 1900Ds between October 2001 and July 2008 to be operated by Eagle Airways on