Australian Aviation

Regional airline Airnorth has boosted its pilot ranks and changed its rostering practices following an unintentional navigation error during a flight in January 2013, the aviation safety investigator says. An Australian Transport Safety Board report found two pilots flying an Airnorth Embraer E170 on January 10 2013 from Darwin to the McArthur River Mine in

Polair 2 takes off in Brisbane The Queensland Police Service (QPS) has added a second helicopter to its ranks with the commissioning into service of Polair 2 on July 5 to provide aerial support for its operations over the state’s south-east, extending from Caboolture in the north and Coolangatta in the south to the Lockyer

The ANAO’s damning report into MRH 90 The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has released a scathing report into the acquisition and service introduction of the ADF’s NHI/Australian Aerospace MRH 90 helicopter which was acquired under Project AIR 9000 Phases 2, 4 & 6. The acquisition of the MRH 90 for all three phases of

The heroes in our midst keep going about their work, training and preparing, always at the ready when the phone rings The news was fresh on the internet and the smoke was still hanging ominously in the air. A firebombing aircraft fighting a bush inferno had crashed and its pilot had perished. Rescue helicopters attempting

A400m Deliveries Start To Take Off The development issues of the Airbus A400M have been well documented. Overruns in time and costs kept the aviation media and participating nations on the edge of their seats until the first aircraft was ultimately delivered to the French Armée de l’Air in August 2013. Less known is the

The latest Boeing 787 for Jetstar has been delivered to Cairns. The Flightaware website shows 787-8 VH-VKH, operating as JQ7878, departing Boeing’s Paine Field, Everett facility on Thursday evening (August 14), arriving into Cairns at 5:48am on Saturday. VKH is Jetstar’s sixth 787 delivery and its first to be built at Boeing’s Charleston, South Carolina facility. This