Category: General Aviation

A demonstration flight that crashed in the front garden of a house highlights the importance of pilots knowing their limitations and of thorough planning and preparation, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says. On May 10 2014, the pilot of Cirrus SR22 N802DK lost control while demonstrating the spin characteristics of the aircraft over Sydney’s

Hawker Pacific is bringing a Bell 429 configured for emergency medical services (EMS) to Australia and New Zealand for a demonstration. In an EMS configuration the 429 can carry two litter or rescue baskets as well as two medical staff and two crew, will be in New Zealand from August 11-21 and in Australia from September 1-19.

Zodiac Aerospace Australia (ZAA) says it has conducted a successful series of trials of its new in-flight ice detection probe. The flights were conducted on a modified King Air which was equipped for atmospheric research flights and operated by Air Affairs Australia (AAA), and were conducted in icing conditions from AAA’s Nowra NSW base over

With the GippsAero brand now all but gone in favour of Mahindra Aerospace, the company has rebranded its GA8 an GA10 Airvans as the Airvan 8 and Airvan 10. The rebranding has also seen the company adopt new logos for the two aircraft which it says is representative of Mahindra’s branding. This content is available