Australian Aviation

It’s Mh-60r V Nfh90 for Air 9000 Phase 8 Competition Defence Will Run a Competitive Tender Process to Select the Air 9000 Phase 8 Naval Combat Helicopter Replacement for the Ran’s 16 S-70b-2 Seahawks and the 11 Cancelled Sh-2g(a) Seasprites, Defence Minister Senator John Faulkner Has Announced. Contrary to Earlier Reports and Defence Sources Saying

Qantas Group News This Issue We Report the Delivery of an A330-200 to Qantas and Two A320s to Jetstar, While Departing Was a 767-300er of Qantas. A330-202 Vh-ebn Clare Valley Was Delivered to Sydney on February 25 After Ferrying in From Toulouse and Singapore as Qf6020. Vh-ebn Entered Service on March 1 When It Operated

A volcano eruption in Iceland has closed airspace around northern Europe, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers. The volcano began erupting on April 14 below the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, hurling a 6-11 kilometre plume of ash into the atmosphere which is spreading to the southeast, forcing Britain to cancel flights in its air space except for

Ex Australian Spitfire Bound For Germany One time Sid Marshall owned Spitfire HF Mk.VIIIc MV154/G-BKMI has been sold by its Scottish owner to a buyer in Germany. The Spitfire is sometimes seen as the one that got away, after it was spirited out of Australia in 1979 in defiance of an export ban on historic

The JSF program is a fast moving target at present, with new reports on troubles with the program appearing regularly, and few successes being announced. The latest bad news for the program is the prospect of facing a potential Nunn- McCurdy cost breach which may result in all expenditure being frozen while the program is

Sunshine Coast Airport has announced that it has engaged consultants AECOM and ARUP to start a study on building a new runway at the growing airport. “This is a very early but essential stage in planning for a new runway and will contribute to the development of a preliminary design,” said Sunshine Coast mayor Bob