Australian Aviation

New Allocations REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OWNER OR OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS CFE Bell 412EP 36204 21/1/10 Child Flight, PO Box 563 Westmead 2145 N30Y N4300B CJT Vans RV‑8A 82509 5/1/10 Donald Scott, PO Box 465 Kalgoorlie WA 6433 DIC Cessna 172S Skyhawk SP 172S9765 14/1/10 Steven Hegarty, PO Box 7329 Garbutt Qld 4814 N544JK N240BP N226DH N65429 DQN Lake

Singapore Airlines has recorded an impressive 11.4 percentage point rise in passenger load factor during March, signalling that the Asia Pacific region is rebounding strongly from the global financial crisis. During the month, the carrier cut passenger capacity by 2.2 per cent, while passenger kilometres increased by 13.9 per cent, resulting in the surge in

US Airways has announced that it has withdrawn from merger discussions with larger rival United Airlines, leaving it only with Continental Airlines as a potential merger partner. US Airways said that while it still believed in consolidation, the airline’s management had decided to discontinue discussions with United. It is the first acknowledgement that it has

Sydney and Brisbane airports have both announced special concessions for passengers whose travel was disrupted by the Icelandic volcano eruption which grounded flights to and from Europe. Both airports will rebate some of the cost of car parking for passengers who have been impacted by the delay where a passenger can show that they were

AgustaWestland has delivered the first of 12 NH90 NFHs to the Royal Netherlands Navy during an official ceremony at the company’s Vergiate plant in Italy on April 20. The delivery is the first of 111 NFH variants to have been ordered by the Netherlands, France, Italy, Norway and Belguim, and comes nearly three years after

Boeing says it successfully flew the first of a second batch of F-15K fighters for South Korea on April 19. The aircraft, dubbed F-15K41, is the first of 21 F-15Ks ordered under South Korea’s NFX2 contract as a follow-on to the original batch of 40 F-15Ks which completed delivery in October 2008. The F-15K is