Australian Aviation

Promoting, educating and improving airport safety The AAA is launching an incredibly exciting new initiative in 2014 to promote safety at airports in Australia and New Zealand. The inaugural ‘Airport Safety Week’ will be held from Monday September 29 to Friday October 3. It will be an Australasian airport industry initiative that will see airport

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has conducted a training course for Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) contracted aircraft operators in Canada ahead of the Antarctic summer season. The support aircraft were based in Calgary out of season, AMSA, said in a statement, and carried search and rescue equipment such as radio direction finding equipment for

The trip of a lifetime That is what British entrepreneur Matthew Munson enjoyed when he travelled in Canada’s last airworthy Lancaster Vera on its flight to the UK on August 8. There the machine has joined with the last airworthy British Lancaster Thumper, operated by Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. Munson won the trip to

The South Korea government has reached agreement with the US government over a US$7 billion deal to acquire 40 F-35A Lightning IIs for the Republic of Korea Air Force. A Letter of Offer and Acceptance between the US and Korean governments is set to be signed covering 40 aircraft, with initial deliveries beginning in 2018, Lockheed Martin said in

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Jet airliner deliveries July-December 2013 This issue, while columnist Gordon Reid is on leave in the US, Traffic produces its annual summary of aircraft deliveries and disposals in our region for the six-month halves of the previous financial year. For the six months to December 2013 28 commercial jet aircraft were delivered to operators in