Marc Joel Atrero

Another Catalina for Australia Who Can Remember the Mike Wansey Catalina That Flew From the Usa to Australia Back in the Early 1980s and Then Toured Around Here for a Time? With a Little Luck That Catalina Will Be Coming Back to Australia. The Cat, Better Known as N68756, a Pby-5a (Ex Bu46590), Was Associated

A330 Enters Jetstar Service Jetstar Placed the A330-200 Into Service in November With Flights From Melbourne to Bangkok and From Sydney to Phuket. A330-202 Vh-ebb Operated the Inaugural Jetstar A330-200 Service on November 23 When It Departed Melbourne for Bangkok as Jq29. The Following Day A330-202 Vh-ebd Operated the Inau-gural Service From Sydney to Phuket

In July 1965, sev-eral Department of Civil Aviation Fixed Wing Testing Officers arrived in Darwin on their bi-annual visit. I was scheduled to do my Commercial Licence flight checks during their short stay. At the time I was em-ployed as the station engineer for Connellan Airways, with a staff of five, maintaining DH Herons, Beech

Intl students boost Australian flying training Flying training in Australia looks set to grow strongly in the com-ing year. According to the Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics 2005 General Aviation Report, over 415,000 flight hours were attributed to flight training, representing a slight drop from 2003 (2004 data was incomplete). Despite this small drop,

Singapore’s new privatised pilot training The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) selection of a Lockheed Martin led team to conduct its Basic Wings Course (BWC) for the next 20 years using the Pilatus PC-21 advanced trainer under a public/private partnership (PPP) ‘turn-key’ arrange-ment could have implica-tions for the RAAF. Under the teaming ar-rangement, Swiss

The National Aviation Press Club held its seventh annual Aviation Journalist of the Year awards presentation dinner at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney on November 24. Long-time editor of Aviation Business maga-zine, Doug Nancarrow, has won the big prize for aviation reporting in 2006, the Airservices Australia National Aviation Press Club Journalist of the Year