Marc Joel Atrero

Will Anything Change With The Death Of The CAA As announced almost a year ago the Civil Aviation Authority was to be officially put to death on June 30, to be replaced by two new agencies on July 1. Yet even with all the time available to it the bureaucracy still couldn’t get its act

Hawker — The Man Behind The Name Mention the name “Hawker” today, especially to someone who owns an aircraft or is in the aviation business, and they will probably think of the Raytheon Aircraft Company’s business jets. The Hawker was once known as the HS.125 but many people do not know how it got its

Tas Jet Provost Flies Following fast on the tail of last month’s report on warbird jets now flying in Australia comes news of yet another first flight and a jet at that. The BAe Jet Provost T.4, VH-JPP, made its debut at Devonport, Tasmania, on Saturday June 3. Previously with the RAF as s/n XS-178,

Aopa Backflips On Latest Airspace Proposals In an apparent backflip, the new President of The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), Dick Smith, in an editorial in the June issue of the AOPA magazine, is now endorsing the latest CAA airspace proposal. In the editorial he states that the proposal “will result in an internationally

Regional Airline News Cape York Air (formerly Cape York Air Services) has sold its BN-2A/3 VH-BSP to Lapthorne Aviation at Tyabb, Victoria, with the Trislander being delivered there in late June. The former Douglas BN-2A/3 P2-DNX has been under rebuild with Cape York Air for some months and on completion was to be registered VH-CYC,

An Unforgettable Experience! A one-time passenger relates the story of a charter flight that went frighteningly wrong — with consequences that were nearly the end of them all. Three of us in Wollongong had arranged to charter a small aeroplane from the nearby airfield at Albion Park to take us out to Griffith for the