November 2016
NEW ALLOCATIONS REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS AQG/4 Cessna T206H Stationair T20609237 19/9/16 State of New South Wales, PO Box 250 Milperra NSW 2214 N7131V CTD/3 Vans RV-7A 74148 4/10/16 Gavin Ennis, 280 Flamborough St Doubleview WA 6018 CWS/4 Kavanagh E-240 E240-524 28/9/16 Global Ballooning, 1/173-175 Swan St Richmond Vic 3121 DUX/3 Kavanagh E-240 E240-525 19/9/16 Global
Mitsubishi Regional Jet begins US flight tests
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation has started flight tests of its Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) program at the company’s Moses Lake Flight Test Centre just outside Seattle. The company said in a statement flight test aircraft FTA-1 successfully completed a three-hour-and-18-minute flight on Monday, October 17. The aircraft, with its distinctive pointed nose, took off from Grant
Domestic ticket prices higher in October
Ticket prices for Australian domestic travel across all cabin classes were up at close to multi-year highs in October, new figures show. The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) measure of domestic business class airfares was at 95.2 index points in September, up from 89.7 points a year earlier. The measure has risen
Passengers increasingly embracing self-service options
More than seven in 10 air travellers now board their flight with a mobile boarding pass as the trend towards self-service checkin and off-site passenger facilitation grows, new figures show. The International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) 2016 global passenger survey found travellers today were willing to take advantage of advances in technology to do more traditional
Australian Airports Association photograph competition closing November 1
There is less than two weeks remaining for those working at Australian Airports Association (AAA) member airports to submit their entries for its photograph of the year competition. Photographs must have been taken after July 1 2015 and of “an object or activity at any airport in Australia”, the AAA said, with “all employees of
Leonardo appoints Toll Helicopters to deliver simulator and training services
Toll Helicopters has signed agreements with Leonardo-Finmeccanica to become the sole authorised training centre for the Australasian region, delivering a full suite of AW139 pilot training packages. Jointly developed by Leonardo and CAE, Toll Helicopters has installed a CAE 3000 Series AW139 full flight simulator (FFS) at its new Aeromedical Crewing Excellence (ACE) training centre
