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In Briefmrh 90 Review Completed Defence Materiel Minister Jason Clare has announced the completion of a “full diagnostic review” into the troubled MRH 90 Multi-Role Helicopter program being acquired for the Army and Navy under Phases 2, 4 and 6 of the Air 9000 project, recommending that the program not be added to the Project

Virgin Australia Launched Virgin Australia, the New Name for Virgin Blue, Was Launched in Sydney on May 4 With the Airline’s New Livery Being Displayed on A330-243 Vh-xfb and 737-81d Vh‑yfc. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Subscribe to Australian Aviation for unlimited access to exclusive content and past magazines. LoginBecome a

Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin Australia have resumed all domestic services as the ash cloud from Chile’s Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano begins to dissipate over Perth, whie Air New Zealand has announced that it will now resume flights from New Zealand’s lower South Island this afternoon. The news comes after Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin cancelled flights to Perth yesterday

Another Curtiss P40 Flies Wangaratta, Vic. was the venue for the first post-rebuild flight of Curtiss P-40F Kittyhawk, VH-PIV on April 14. The pilot was Murray Griffiths. Murray is also listed as the owner of the WW2 fighter. The machine was placed on the Australian register on October 19 2010 with serial 41-19841. As an

Airservices Australia will begin the assembly of temporary radar in Cairns early next week, as the air traffic control provider moves ahead with plans to establish a permanent Terminal Area Radar (TAR) by mid 2012. The temporary radar, which previously serviced both Melbourne and Sydney Airports while their own TAR’s were upgraded, will be set

USAF fighter pilot Colonel John Warden was the architect of the most successful air campaign in history. Initially code-named ‘Instant Thunder’, the campaign was the centre-piece of Operation Desert Storm, the US-led war against Iraq from 17 January to 28 February 1991. So effective was the air phase of the war that the ground invasion