The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) grounding all Australian registered Robinson R44 helicopters fitted with main rotor blades carrying the serial number P/N C016-7 (Dash 7) until further notice. The February 21 AD was the result of initial advice from air crash investigators conducting an investigation into a
Bristow Helicopters Australia, an affiliate of the US-based Bristow Group, has bought a controlling 85 per cent stake in Australian regional carrier and Qantas codeshare partner Airnorth. Bristow Group said in a regulatory filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission it paid A$30.3 million cash for the majority stake in Airnorth, with a further
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The RAAF has accepted the first two of 10 C-27J Spartan tactical airlifters onto the Commonwealth register, and commenced maintenance training on the aircraft at L-3’s facility at Waco in Texas on December 8, and aircrew training with instructors from L-3 Communications on December 15. The milestone is the latest in the RAAF’s effort to
Transport and logistics provider Toll Group has won a 10-year contract to operate a key element of NSW Health’s aeromedical fleet. NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner announced the winners of the recently conducted tender for the state’s rotary-wing air ambulance operations on Friday. Under the new contracts, the state’s helicopter ambulance operations will be split into a
The ADF has released a redacted commission of inquiry (CoI) report into the crash of an Army CH-47D Chinook in Afghanistan on May 30 2011 which resulted in the death of Army LT Marcus Case. LT Case had recently arrived in Afghanistan to join the Kandahar-based Heron RPV detachment. He was riding on the open rear
