Australian Aviation

King Air Makes a Comeback in Australia The Beech King Air is the most widely used turbine type on the Australian register. In recent years King Air sales have been very slow so the Australian agents, Hawker Pacific, are to be commended for finding new applications tor this versatile aircraft, which has resulted in them

Southern Cloud Air Mystery of the Mountains Australia’s first major aviation disaster not only spelt financial ruin for the legendary Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm and their fledgling Australian National Airways, but it ushered in the eventual establishment of the beginnings of an air traffic surveillance and control system administered by a government department.

Helicopter Happenings At press time, most newsworthy aspects of the helicopter industry seem to be concentrated in the off-shore and metropolitan sectors of the industry. The of/ashore people, still somewhat unsettled by the controversy surrounding the award and subsequent cancellation of the ShellWoodside off-shore helicopter support contract based at Karratha on the Northwest Shelf, eagerly

Ansett Still Getting Air Queens- Land On-Carriage: Virtually all of Air Queensland’s valuable on-carriage traffic is still going to Ansett despite the carrier now being owned by TAA. Air Queensland originally entered a servicing and traffic agreement with Ansett in September, 1981 and while they won’t be drawn into the duration of the agreement a

Stage One of the ‘Dick Smith’ Enquiry Finalises Report: Stage one of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure-Aviation Review has finished. Stage One examined only the situation regarding the Darling Harbour Heliport. A full evaluation of this is given elsewhere in this edition in our new Helo News section which commences in this

More Punch to Raaf’s F-111 Strike Force: The first RAAF F-111C strike aircraft to be modified in Australia with the Pave Tack target acquisition and tracking system returned to operational service during late September. The Pave Tack system, when integrated with the F-111C’s onboard radar and navigational avionics, enables the aircrew to identify and track