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ANA rejoins battle for the Japan-Australia route Japan’s biggest airline is hoping to tap into the recent growth in passengers travelling between Australia and Japan with its new Tokyo/Haneda- Sydney service which took off in December. ANA brought out its Star Wars-themed 787, dubbed the R2-D2 Dreamliner, for the inaugural flight that proved a popular

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NEW ALLOCATIONS REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS CLK/5 Robinson R22 Beta II 4624 26/11/15 Heliflite, PO Box 121 Georges Hall NSW 2198 VH-JKX 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

The RAAF’s eighth and last C-17 Globemaster touches down It is said that generals are always planning to fight the last war and as if to underscore the point, the doubling of the RAAF’s fleet of C-17s to eight ensures Australia will never again be bound by the airlift capacity constraints it encountered during 1999’s

10 years ago On December 12 Boeing announced that it had received a contract from the Government of Singapore to build 12 F-15SG advanced versions of the F-15E Strike Eagle as the country’s next generation replacement fighter jet, plus another eight options. The aircraft will be delivered in 2008 and 2009 enabling the Republic of

ZK-CKH is painted to represent RNZAF Beaver NZ6001, which arrived in New Zealand in 1956 and made several trips to the Antarctic before crashing on the Beardsmore Glacier in 1960, in whiteout conditions, never to be recovered. lenn bayliss Yale finds a home Peter Smythe has added another gem to his growing collection in acquiring