Australian Aviation

Commercial Boeing Racks Up Another Record Tally the New Year Was Barely Four Days Old When Boeing Announced It Had Sold a Net Total of 1413 Airliners in 2007, 358 More Than the Previous Record of 1055 Net Orders Recorded by Airbus in 2005 Which Itself Was Closely Followed by the 1044 Boeing Logged in

In the office of Deputy Chief of Air Force (DCAF) Air Vice Marshal John Blackburn is a framed photograph of R1, the headquarters building at Russell Offices in Canberra which is home to the Chief of Defence Force, the Secretary of the Department of Defence, the service chiefs and their deputies, among others. R1 is

It seems not a year goes by that one of Australia’s major airlines is up for sale. In the early 1990s it was Compass I and II but no-one was buying and then for the balance of the 1990s it was Ansett, then Impulse and Ansett again into this decade. This content is available exclusively

New Allocations REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIALNUMBER/DATE/OWNEROROPERATOR/PREVIOUSREGISTRATIONS APJ Cessna525CitationJetCJ1525‑028125/10/07SouthernAirServices, POBox412 Warrnambool Vic 3280 N508TL N500TL N41NK N1280S N5154J BKL PA‑44‑180 Seminole 44‑8195016 1/11/07 Lampa Holdings, PO Box 754 Fyshwick ACT 2609 HS‑TCB N8341W (N262ER) BQI Schweizer269C300CS143017/10/07RodneyIllingworth, PMB39 WinnellieNT 0822 JA7788 BVJ GippslandGA‑8AirvanGA8‑07‑11624/10/07GippslandAeronautics, POBox881 Morwell Vic 3840 CMK RobinsonR22BetaII422331/10/07Heliflite, POBox YQBankstownAirport2200 EGI AerospatialeAS350BASquirrel213818/10/07HelicopterSupport, 25BayviewDr Blackstone Heights Tas 7250 N890AK N907SH

It would be a brave person who predicts that a simple change of government would have any affect on the blight that affects CASA and other aviation policy in Australia – but perhaps hope springs eternal! The election of the Rudd Labor government may be the circuit breaker required to put some common sense back

The issue of climate change is now high on the agenda for the aviation industry in Australia. Of the three major industry conventions held during November, Safeskies, the Australian Airports Association Convention, and GreenSkies, the latter two, like the RAAA Convention in October, gave prominence to environmental issues. This content is available exclusively to Australian