Regional Airline News Airlines of Tasmania EMB-110P1 Bandeirante VH-WPI which was parked at Bankstown (Traffic/July) has been sold to Vanair of Vanimo, PNG as P2-VAD. Executive Air Charter is reported to have ceased operations on June 30. EMB-110P1 VH-BWC which Executive had leased from Port Douglas Air was noted back in Cairns on July 5

Further Enhancement of RAAF F/A-18 Hornets Planned A further enhancement of the operational effectiveness of the Royal Australian Air Force’s F/A-18 Hornet fighters is planned to begin by mid-1997. With Phase 1 of Project AIR 5376 (the Hornet Fighter Upgrade — HUG) approved last year, the stage appears set in the 1996-97 Budget, at the

Mercy Flights – 40 Years On Mercy Flight: … A Flight Undertaken to Provide Urgent Medical, Flood or Fire Relief Evacuation, in Order to Relieve a Person From Grave and Imminent Danger … Involving Irregular Operation … Must Be Declared to Be a Mercy Flight. Thus has the term “Mercy Flight” been defined in Australia’s

10 Years Ago General Dynamics has received a $4.3 billion contract from the USAF to produce an additional 720 F-16s with an initial delivery under the contract set for next summer, to continue until 1991. By September 15, General Dynamics had delivered 1604 F-16s and is currently producing the aircraft at a rate of 150