Staff reporter

As Australia celebrates the return of international travel to these shores, we are inviting all airport and aerodrome proprietors to enter in the ‘Airport of the Year’ category at the Australian Aviation Awards.

Leonardo Australia has announced that its Essendon Fields service centre has received Part 145 approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.

The aircraft crew flew nine missions, detecting and reporting over 110 suspicious vessels and helping locate one vessel of interest.

The frigate and the maritime patrol aircraft have concluded trilateral training alongside US Navy destroyer USS Momsen and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Yudachi in the South China Sea.

Canberra-based public company XTEK has been selected to provide the Department of Defence with its ‘Wasp’ small unmanned aerial systems (SUAS) drone platforms, in a $2.75 million deal.

Airbus has partnered with Perth-based renewable energy company Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) to collaborate on the development of hydrogen-focused low emission solutions for the aviation sector.