Category: Defence

The first C-130H Hercules delivered to the Royal New Zealand Air Force has celebrated its 50th birthday while on operations supporting the Vanuatu cyclone recovery effort. NZ7001 was the first of five C-130Hs delivered the RNZAF at Whenuapai on March 24 1965. On its 50th birthday, the aircraft was tasked to fly from Suva to Port

The centre and rear fuselage ‘shipset’ for the RAAF’s first EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft has been completed by Super Hornet program sub-contractor, Northrop Grumman. The milestone shipset represents the one hundredth Hornet, Super Hornet and Growler shipset Northrop Grumman has manufactured for the RAAF, after the 75 classic Hornets which were built in the

The first Australian F-35A Lightning II pilot has completed his first flight in the aircraft. Squadron Leader Andrew Jackson’s flight, on the morning of March 17 (US time), was conducted in a US Air Force F-35A from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, where he is undergoing conversion training onto the aircraft. This content is available exclusively

Two Australian Army Black Hawks and a Navy MRH90 Taipan are joining relief efforts in Vanuata in the wake of Cyclone Pam A RAAF Boeing C-17 was due to airlift the two Black Hawks to Vanuatu in an effort to boost the availability of tactical transport aircraft serving outlying areas, while the RAN’s amphibious heavy-lift ship HMAS Tobruk, with a crew of