Australian Aviation

Getting the Sea Kings Back to Sea The Government’s decision more than a year ago not to acquire another aircraft carrier to replace HMAS Melbourne has meant that the Navy’s eight Sea King anti-submarine warfare helicopters are not being fully utilised as earlier envisaged. To many that is a waste of a resource worth around

Changes in Aircraft Registration System Under Investigation: The DotA is investigating the future of the present VH aircraft registration system following the realisation that the current system has a ceiling of just under 15,000 registrations and that there may be a requirement for 20.000 registrations by 1990 if ANO 95 ultralights are to be registered

No. 79 Squadron Returns: The RAAF’s No. 79 fighter squadron is set to return to action Originally formed in 1943 with Spitfires, it was disbanded in 1945 only to be temporarily re-formed in 1962 to fly CA-27 Sabres out of Ubon AFB, Thailand alongside the USAF. The squadron ceased operating in 1968 and now returns

Government Says ‘No’ to Airbus Stakebutairbus Says ‘Yes’Tolocal Offsets: July was an interesting month in Australia as far as Airbus Industrie was concerned. During early July the Federal Government announced that it was not able to assist with providing $23 million finance for a 1.5% associatepartnershareholdingintheA320programmefortheAustralian aerospace industry. Within ten days of that announcement Airbus

The July edition of Interavia magazine contained an interesting supplement on the international corporate aircraft population. Prepared with the co-operation of Aviation Data Services of Wichita the report reveals that there are no less than 12,700 turboprop and jet corporate aircraft in service compared with 7800 in airline livery. North America, not surprisingly, is home

Is Departmental Inefficiency Strangling Civil Aviation? The submissions put forward by our major airlines to the Department of Aviation’s Inquiry Into Aviation Cost Recovery all reflect a growing disenchantment with the Department’s role as overseer of the airways. Indeed the aviation industry has had more cost recovery studies in recent years than bears remembering except