Australian Aviation

Airlines don’t have a glorious history of investing in other industries Airlines have made some strange investments over the years, some of them difficult to link to the business of transporting people across the skies in big jets. For some inexplicable reason, for example, Japan Airlines once owned a dry cleaning business in Honolulu, though

Airbus A320neo family starts at passenger experience advantage to 737 MAX At the Farnborough Air Show this year, the size of the re-engined narrowbody market was truly highlighted by both Boeing and Airbus, with their market forecasts suggesting that the majority of their business for the next 20 years will be of the narrowbody size.

NEW ALLOCATIONS REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS BPD/10 Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire Mk 26 047 18/7/16 Murray Kester, 465B Canning Hwy Melville WA 6156 This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. LoginBecome a MemberTo continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Address Password Keep me signed in on this device Forgot

Closing the air-sea gap Australian air power has always had a distinct maritime focus. Sir Richard Williams, the RAAF’s founding father, established the importance of the sea to Australian airmen when he stated in 1925 that, “Australia’s first requirement is to provide itself with an Air Force capable of defeating that which might be brought

Australian aviation news & views Bounce back Will Qantas reward shareholders with dividend? Qantas is poised to potentially deliver more returns to shareholders when it hands down what is expected to be a bumper full year profit. The airline group returned some $1 billion to shareholders in the recently concluded financial year, comprising a $505

In defence of risk in defence acquisitions The RAAF likes to call it the “tanker of choice”. The RAAF has had one KC-30A tanker transport deployed in the Middle East in support of operations over Iraq and Syria since September 2014, in which time it has offloaded over 50 million pounds (nearly 23,000 tonnes) of