Marc Joel Atrero

Commercial 787 First Delivery Delayed to 2010 Boeing Has Announced a Further Six Month Delay to the 787 Program Which Now Sees the Aircraft’s First Flight Delayed Until the Second Half of 2009 and First Deliveries to Take Place in the First Quarter of 2010 – About Two Years Late. Boeing Attributed the Latest Delay

For an industry constantly buffeted by change, from that perspective the aviation Green Paper can be welcomed as it proposes little in the way of wide sweeping reform. The Green Paper – detailed from page 22 – sets out the government’s planned initiatives for its forthcoming National Aviation Policy, now due for release in the

The push by the federal government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to allow foreign airlines to fly domestic routes is both seriously flawed on safety grounds and ill thought out, and would bring nothing but grief for the industry and the country. The simple fact is that virtually any foreign airline can already

New Allocations REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OWNER OR OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS AAJ Bell 206B‑2 JetRanger II 48 29/9/08 Jeff McTaggart, PO Box 1174 Surfers Paradise Qld 4217 VH‑BRQ PK‑OBI P2‑AJJ VH‑AJJ RP‑C842 PI‑C842 PI‑C1890 AGL Eurocopter AS 350B2 Squirrel 4146 15/9/08 Touchdown Helicopters, PO Box 386 Wollongong NSW 2520 C‑GTSZ ATB Robinson R44 Raven II 12332 16/9/08 Helicopter Flight

Essendon Airport has been serving regional and metropolitan Victoria successfully for over 85 years, but Premier John Brumby has stated in the Victorian parliament that he wishes to close the airport in the “medium term”. So the recent announcement by the federal transport minister, Anthony Albanese, to approve the Essendon Airport 20 year master plan

By now, all AOC holders will have received correspondence from CASA about the need to have a Drug and Alcohol Management Plan in place by March 23 2009. DAMPs will be compulsory for all aerial application operators with an employee/contractor and AAAA is working to make this as simple as possible for members. AAAA is