New Zealand based Pacific Aerospace has teamed with L-3 Platform Integration to offer its rugged P-750 XSTOL aircraft to the USAF for that service’s Light Mobility Aircraft (LiMA) competition. “Our team combines the versatility and power of the P-750 XSTOL with L-3’s military systems integration experience, training and integrated logistics support capability,” said James Burkhardt,
The RAAF’s C-130 Hercules transport commitment to operations in the Middle East (MEAO) has logged its 20,000th operational hour since the deployment began in February 2003. The milestone was achieved by a C-130J of 37SQN in early March during an aeromedical evacuation (AME) flight in Afghanistan. “It’s a credit not only to the aircrew, but to
Two Army C Squadron CH-47D Chinooks have returned to Afghanistan, bolstering the International Security Assistance Force’s heavy lifting capabilities for the approaching summer. The Chinooks arrived by RAAF C-17s in early and mid March and are embedded with the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade based at Kandahar Airfield, southern Afghanistan, for an eight month deployment over
Perth based Quickstep Holdings has signed a Manufacturing License Agreement (MLA) with Northrop Grumman for the manufacture of up to $700 million worth of components for the JSF program. The MLA follows an MoU signed late last year, and provides export approval to Northrop Grumman to start transferring to Quickstep technical information necessary for the
The RAAF’s first five of 24 Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets touched down at their home base of RAAF Amberley on March 26 following their trans Pacific ferry flight. The five 1SQN jets, accompanied by an Omega Aerial Refueling Services KDC-10 tanker and followed by a RAAF C-17 airlifter, had departed Naval Air Station Lemoore in
The RAAF’s first five of 24 F/A-18F Super Hornets are due to arrive at Amberley on Friday March 26 after their trans-Pacific delivery flight. The jets, A44-202 to -206, are being flown from NAS Lemoore near Fresno in California via Hawaii, Samoa and New Zealand by crews from 1SQN, and are being accompanied by an
