Australia's three major aviation agencies will host a safety forum, called FlySafe 2019, at the Australian International Airshow at Avalon.
The world's dominant airliner manufacturers Airbus and Boeing have both separately recorded another record year for commercial airliner deliveries.
Boeing has shown for the first time a new transonic truss-braced wing (TTBW) airliner concept which it says would fly higher and faster than previous ultra-efficient airliner concepts.
The Boeing 777 has surpassed 2,000 orders, making it the biggest selling widebody airliner ever. The milestone was passed in December with an order for 17 777s from BOC Aviation and two as-yet unidentified customers. The current total of 2,013 sales includes all eight 777 models including the 777F freighter and the latest 777X models. These include
Rolls-Royce is developing what it says will be the world's fastest electric aircraft.
Airbus now holds more than 500 firm orders for its A220 narrowbody twin after inking separate deals with JetBlue and a US start-up led by JetBlue founder David Neeleman for 60 A220-300s each.