A Royal Australian Air Force C-17 pilot and the owner of a helicopter training business have been recognised at the 2014 Telstra Queensland Business Women’s awards. Squadron Leader Samantha Freebairn, who is based at Amberley, took out the business innovation award. Freebairn was the RAAF’s first female pilot to return to operational flying after having
The second F-35A Lightning II for the RAAF made its first flight on October 1. Lockheed Martin test pilot Bill Gigliotti was at the controls of aircraft AU-2 (RAAF serial A35-002) for the approximately 90 minute flight, from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, adjacent to Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth production facilities. AU-2’s first flight
The E-7A Wedgetail and KC-30A tanker transport deployed to the Middle East as part of the RAAF’s Air Task Group flew their first operational missions over Iraq on October 1. “The E-7A conducted a support mission over central Iraq while the KC-30A conducted a support flight over Iraq,” the Department of Defence said in a
The RAAF has released this video footage of the first flight of its first F-35A Lightning II, which took place from Fort Worth on September 29. The aircraft, known to the RAAF as A35-001 and to manufacturer Lockheed Martin as AU-1, is scheduled for formal handover to the RAAF “later this year”, Lockheed Martin says, before being assigned to Luke
The first F-35A Lightning II for the Royal Australian Air Force has made its first flight. The aircraft, designated AU-1 by manufacturer Lockheed Martin and A35-001 by the RAAF, took off from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, adjacent to Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth production facilities, at approximately 14:45 local time on September
RAAF Base Amberley is set to become the operating base for 35SQN and the future fleet of 10 Alenia C-27J Spartan battlefield airlifters that are expected to arrive in Australia in 2015, Air Force News has reported. The first aircraft are anticipated to initially be based at RAAF Base Richmond when they begin arriving early next
