Category: Civil Aviation

The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued an emergency airworthiness directive for inspections of Goodrich supplied pitot tubes on Airbus A330s and A340s which may have manufacturing flaws, possibly leading to incorrect airspeed readings. “Several reports have recently been received of loose pneumatic quick disconnect unions on Goodrich pitot probes P/N 0851HL,” the AD reads.

Boeing’s vice president of sales Randy Tinseth wrote in his blog last week that modification work on the wing join of the first Boeing 787 is currently underway. “Modifications are indeed underway. We’ve begun installing the reinforcements on the area within the side-of-body section on Airplane #1 and on the static airframe,” Tinseth wrote. This

Airbus has released its latest global market forecast, which predicts that 25,000 new aircraft will be required globally over the next 20 years, with larger aircraft expected to feature prominently to ease congestion at major airports. Despite its own forecast that revenue passenger kilometres will be two per cent lower this year, Airbus expects that

Hawker Pacific is undertaking a national sales tour of the Diamond DA20 CLS and DA40 XLS aircraft during September and October. The two aircraft were based at Bankstown until September 17, and will then be displayed at Moorabbin from September 19-21, Essendon on September 22, Port Macquarie on September 29, Gold Coast on September 30,