Marc Joel Atrero

Qantas retires the 747 ‘Classic’ Tuesday January 20 saw the end of an era in Australian commercial aviation with the departure from Australia of Qantas’s last ‘Classic’ 747-300. Qantas personnel who had worked on or with the Classic gathered along the fence line next to Sydney Airport’s old control tower beach along with a group

Our Beloved Patron and my dear friend Nancy Bird-Walton AO, OBE, Hon. DSC., Hon. ME sadly passed away peacefully in her sleep on the 15th of January, 2009 at 2pm. Although hospitalised earlier after a nasty fall, right up until two days before her passing Nancy was going on daily walks and cheerfully answering a

Commercial Doubts Emerge on Cseries Influential Aerospace Analyst Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group Has Given the Bombardier Cseries a “less Than 50 Per Cent” Chance of Operating. Teal Recently Removed the Pw100g Powered Cseries From Its Long Term Analysis, Mostly Due to the Fact That the Aircraft Has Not Yet Received a Firm Order

With the world economy turning south and airlines worldwide under great financial pressure, it is easy to lose sight of some of the longer term issues facing aviation – most notably environmental challenges. But despite today’s financial pain, most airlines and certainly aircraft and engine manufacturers realise the importance in dramatically reducing aviation’s contribution to

On August 6, 1947 in the first of several such appearances, Howard Hughes told an emotion-charged and sometimes heated US Senate hearing that he had put the sweat of his life and his reputation into his H4 Hercules “Spruce Goose” – and if it was a failure he would leave the country and never return.

New Allocations REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OWNER OR OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS AAD Pilatus PC‑12/47E 1068 13/11/08 AA Company, GPO Box 587 Brisbane 4000 HB‑FRW ADF Cessna 182S Skylane 18280870 7/11/08 Gerdgrove, 848 Dohles Rocks Rd Griffin Qld 4503 N391ME ADI Cessna 172S Skyhawk SP 172S10029 20/10/08 Australian Air Safaris, PO Box 8 North Adelaide SA 5006 N822TK AFF Gippsland