Category: RAAF

A war of words has broken out between Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science, Greg Combet, and the Liberal member for Paterson, Bob Baldwin, over the potential noise impact the F-35 JSF will have on communities surrounding RAAF Base Williamtown when the aircraft enters service from 2018. Baldwin says communities in the area haven’t

The Commonwealth has signed a three year contract with Boeing to support the RAAF’s 24 F/A-18F Super Hornets in service. The contract is valued at about $20 million per year and will provide 74 jobs at RAAF Amberley, most of whom will be Boeing Defence Australia employees. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation

The RAAF is closer to commencing Super Hornet maintenance training in Australia with the delivery of a Visual Environment Maintenance Trainer to the aircraft’s home base at RAAF Amberley. The trainer is a Super Hornet cockpit simulator which provides maintenance students with touch screens on which to perform representative diagnostics and functional checks, and will

A former RAAF 707 tanker has been broken up at RAAF Richmond is preparation for its cockpit and forward fuselage to be restored for display at the RAAF Museum at Point Cook near Melbourne. The restoration is being undertaken by Omega Air International as part of an agreement to return three other former RAAF 707s