Marc Joel Atrero

The engine will undergo 40 test flights over the northern summer ahead of certification later this year. (GE) Commercial Lufthansa Firms Cseries Order Lufthansa Has Signed a Contract for 30 and Options for 30 Bombardier Cseries Airliners, the First Firm Order for the New Narrow-body Commercial Jet. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation

At just 42 years of age, new Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has been the airline’s rising star – two decades in the making. Despite his comparative youth, Joyce is a 20 year airline industry veteran, and while he rose to prominence launching and running Jetstar, before that he worked within Qantas itself, Ansett in the

New Allocations REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OWNER OR OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS ABT Pitts S‑1S Special 183H 5/1/09 Benjamin Brazier, PO Box 209 Nebo Qld 4742 AEA Gippsland GA8 Airvan GA8‑08‑136 9/1/09 Gippsland Aeronautics, PO Box 881 Morwell Vic 3840 AJI Kavanagh E‑120 KB390 12/1/09 Kavanagh Balloons, PO Box 53 Mount Kuring‑Gai 2080 ALV Revolution Mini 500 0383 23/1/09 Gary

Significant increases in the number of aircraft on contract to fight fires is an essential first step in the wake of the Victorian fires, but aircraft alone will still not be enough to meet the challenges of Australian summers and vegetation. After the Canberra bushfires in 2003, a number of Federal, Territory and Coroners’ inquires

Mackay International No sooner had the ink dried on the sale contract than the Mackay Mercury ran the perennial international airport push article. Yet just six jet minutes north the fate of the (still) non existent Laguna Quays International and further north Proserpine, which fears being dumped, remain in limbo, as does a greenfield international

The latest figures obtained from CASA show a continued decline in the number of aeroplane flying instructors. Those figures indeed indicate that instructors are thin on the ground. The figures show that as at the middle of 2008 there had been an effective drop of 29% in the number of fixed wing or aeroplane flying