Fokker Shuts Its Doors Amsterdam, March 15, 1996 – “At the request of Fokker’s administrators, the District Court of Amsterdam has retracted the suspension of payments provisionally granted to the companies NV Koninklijke Nederlandse Vliegtuigenfabriek Fokker, Fokker Aircraft BV and Fokker Administration BV and declared them to be in a state of bankruptcy. The former

Botany Bay DC-3 Overweight The Bureau of Air Safety Investigation’s report into the ditching of South Pacific Airmotive’s DC-3 VH-EDC into Botany Bay following an engine failure on takeoff in April 1994 found that the aircraft was 562 kg overweight. The BASI report said that the aircraft’s captain had calculated the DC-3’s takeoff weight for

Ctr Sizes Cut Most of Australia’s Control Zones (CTRs) are to be reduced in size by between 20 and 50% on June 20 this year. The reductions are to comply with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s new airspace design standard, which indicated the CTRs were too big and that the same level of protection to

Military Singapore Looks at Tankers The Republic of Singapore Air Force is considering its options on the purchase of boom equipped tanker aircraft, the leading one being the purchase of four surplus Boeing KC-135s from the USAF. An RSAF team recently visited the USA to evaluate the aircraft and inspect airframes stored at Davis Monthan