Marc Joel Atrero

P-3C Orion Updates Underway Worldwide tenders have been sought to upgrade key systems on the RAAF’s hard-working P-3C Orion maritime patrol and antisubmarine warfare (ASW) aircraft based at Edinburgh, SA. A Defence/RAAF team will go overseas towards the end of the year for on-the-spot inspections and discussions on the type of new equipment required. What

Remember the old Pratt & Whitney engine logo? The bald eagle adorned some of the world’s most famous engines on some of the world’s foremost aeroplanes. Well, the bald eagle lives to fly another day and has been reinstated as the official Pratt & Whitney logo from this day on. Discarded in 1981 as the

Continuing Our Series Outlining the History, Flying Characteristics & Market Values of General Aviation’s Most Interesting Aircraft Piper’s PA28 Cherokee Unlike the Beech 33/35 and Cessna 172 aircraft discussed previously, Piper Aircraft’s ‘Cherokee’ series provides an example of the diversification possible from a single and basic model of light aeroplane. This most well-known American light

Good and Bad News in Parliamentary Reshuffle Vet again ‘Aviation’ has disappeared from the signboards in Parliament House. Our new Department of Transport and Communications was being inaugurated as this issue went to press. Name changes are not new to the industry as it is now seeing its fourth new department in little over a

Airline Movements A quieter period for airline deliveries with the highlights being the arrival of two 737-376’s for Australia, two 737-130’s for Ansett New Zealand, the first Mohawk 298 for Lloyd Aviation and the departure of the second Air Queensland ATR-42. Australian Airlines 11th and 12th 737-376 flew into Melbourne on June 26th to complete

Restored East-West Anson Goes on Show East-West Airlines first aircraft, Avro Anson VH-ASM, was the centrepiece of the Airlines 40th anniversary celebrations held at Sydney airport on June 26th. Built by A. V. Roe & Co. in the UK, the Anson, W2068, was taken on charge by the RAAF in 1941. After the war it