Marc Joel Atrero

Regional Airline News Airlines of Tasmania Metro III VH-NEM was withdrawn from service on December 31 on termination of its lease from Fairchild. VH-NEM was then ferried to Tamworth where Tamair prepared it for its ferry flight to Karlshamm, Sweden and its lease to local operator International Business Air. Airlines of Tasmania replaced VH-NEM with

Election Campaign The forthcoming Federal election seems unlikely to produce any fireworks and prominent headlines, unless the Liberal-National Coalition has a few surprises up its sleeve. While there is no formal bipartisan agreement between the Government and Opposition on defence policies, the differences mostly appear at the margins. However, at the time of writing, the

Sir Tim Wallis In New Zealand Spitfire Accident An accident that saw his Spitfire Mk.XIV ‘NH799’, ZK-XIV, very badly damaged and putting leading New Zealand Warbird owner and pilot in hospital with serious injuries must make one ask if Sir Tim can afford to continue flying Spitfires. The accident occurred at Wanaka aerodrome, in the

10 Years Ago The French certification was granted to the three-engined Dassault-Breguet Falcon 900 business jet on March 13 and was followed by US Type Approval on March 21. Falcon 900 orders currently stand at 51. The first flight of Cessna’s stretched version of the Caravan utility aircraft took place on March 3. It has

N8 – Westland Scout AH.71 The Westland P.531 was designed as a private venture by the Saunders-Roe company as a compact five-seat general purpose helicopter. Developed from the company’s earlier Skeeter light helicopter, the Saro P.531 was larger with an externally mounted 400shp (800kW) turbine engine with a four-bladed main rotor and a four-wheeled undercarriage.

Is General Aviation and the vast industry that supports it going to languish for another three years or is it time for a new and reinvigorated team to implement the many changes that are so long overdue? Danielle Doney speaks with Dick Smith, President of the influential Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association to ascertain the