Category: Civil Aviation

Aviation could receive greater ministerial attention in the federal government after the appointment of Nationals MP Darren Chester as Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Chester, the Member for Gippsland, a former journalist and currently Assistant Minister for Defence, was named as the new minister with responsibility for aviation as part of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Cabinet

Airbus has added three new A350 stations at its Toulouse facility as the manufacturer begins final assembly of the first of three A350-1000 flight test aircraft while it increases production of the A350-900. The first A350-1000 has entered the final assembly line and is expected to begin test flights before the end of 2016, Airbus said

Airbus has completed the first flight test of its A321neo narrowbody powered by CFM Leap-1A engines. The maiden flight with the A321neo (new engine option), which is the largest of Airbus’s A320 family of single-aisle aircraft, took off from Finkenwerder Airport near Hamburg on February 9 (European time). This content is available exclusively to Australian

Gulfstream’s newest business jet the G500 is making further progress towards certification in 2017 with the completion of flutter testing as part of the aircraft’s flight test program. The first G500 test aircraft, T1, has flown more than 50 missions and clocked up about 320 since its first flight in May 2015. Since then, the