Marc Joel Atrero

…When originally delivered to Australia in 1959 the 707 was registered VH-EBA and carried the name City of Canberra, but in airline service was renamed City of Melbourne. (Andrew McLaughlin) 707 City of Canberra touches down On December 16 2006 Qantas’s very first jet aircraft, Boeing 707-138B City of Canberra, landed at Sydney after a

National Air Support’s new Coastwatch contract The world’s biggest coastwatch task just got bigger. Not in geographical size – it still covers the huge 15 million square kilometre exclusive economic zone extending 200nm (370km) from the Australian coast – but in the capabilities of the new National Air Support operation for the Australian Customs Service.

Growth for Boeing’s training provider Boeing’s Alteon training division officially opened its new Singapore Training Centre on January 18. The new facility, located just west of Changi Airport, has been operating since October last year and features seven full motion simulator bays, computer based training services, dozens of classrooms, and office space for visiting airline

One of the best kept secrets in Australia’s aviation industry is rapidly gaining an international reputation as one of the world’s leading aviation technical, maintenance and flight attendant training organisations. Based at new and refurbished facilities near Brisbane Airport’s former international terminal, Aviation Australia was established in 2001 with the support of the Queensland government,

This pretty aeroplane’s big, ugly front wheel has been replaced by a neat little tailwheel. Doesn’t it look better? Now look harder. Do you see those drooped wing-tips, those upper-surface wing fences? These are external evidence of a couple more inexpensive modification packages that make this 152 an outstanding performer in the climb, cruise, approach

The Qantas takeover and the ‘national interest’ The federal government is possibly wishing that it could avail itself of the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) fitted to Qantas aircraft as it grapples with the massive conflict of national interest engendered in the proposed $11 billion debt laden private equity buyout of Qantas with its aggressive