Marc Joel Atrero

Coming in the shadow of the Super Hornet delivery only a few weeks earlier, the May 5 official handover of the first two Boeing Wedgetail AEW&C platforms to the RAAF hasn’t rated the attention it deserves. This is perhaps particularly so as the aircraft – A30-001 and -004 – have been operating out of RAAF

Skywest Airlines tripling its fleet in two years and now introducing A320s. Alliance Airlines buying eight more F-100s. Strategic Airlines introducing A320s in WA. Noise groups lobbying for curfews. Perth Airport playing catch up. This is the face of air travel in Western Australia as the state’s government, councils, airports and airlines strive to keep

Rhinos to reinforce ‘world’s best small air force’ The arrival of the RAAF’s first five F/A-18F Boeing Super Hornets (Rhinos) on March 26 was an historic and very proud day for the Air Force. I and everyone in the Air Force had been eagerly awaiting their arrival since the first Australian Super Hornet rolled off

New Allocations REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OWNER OR OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS AHX Diamond DA42‑L360 Twin Star 42AC145 2/2/10 Australian Air Ferry, 35 Bunya Pine Ct Kempsey NSW 2440 AZE Taylor JT1 Monoplane PFA055‑10553 23/2/10 Andrew Moore, 52 Gibson St Beaconsfield WA 6162 G-BKEU BQF Gippsland GA8‑TC 320 Airvan GA8‑TC 320 09‑149 26/2/10 MAF International Asia Pacific, PO Box 1099

Qantas has not nominated which other routes it might look at in South Australia alongside Adelaide-Port Lincoln, but the scenario is interesting. There are only two real possibilities – Mt Gambier, and Olympic Dam, where Qantas presently codeshares on the Alliance Airlines’ F50 charters. Alliance wrested the route from 20 years of Kendell/Rex operation just

Big, sophisticated aerial application The days of aerial application aircraft being thought of as small, cheap and underpowered are long gone, and the debut of the latest Air Tractor firebomber – the AT1002 – is proof that big, sophisticated and aerial application go together very well. The AT1002 is the latest in the ongoing development