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New Cobham RJ85 delivered
/A new Arvo RJ85 for Cobham Aviation Services has arrived in Australia. The aircraft, registered G-CDYK and painted in the new Cobham colours, touched down at Adelaide shortly after midday on Monday. It will now undergo some maintenance work in Adelaide before it is ferried to Western Australia to start work flying to Gold Fields
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NSW Police aviation branch adds two aircraft
/ | 1 Comment on NSW Police aviation branch adds two aircraftNSW Police has added a Bell 412EPI and a Cessna Grand Caravan EX to its aviation support branch. Named PolAir 5 and PolAir 7, the pair was inducted into service at Bankstown Airport on Sunday, boosting the aviation support branch’s fleet to five helicopters and two fixed-wing aircraft. It was the largest fleet of police
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Canberra farewells the Qantas 767 as retirement nears
/ | 7 Comments on Canberra farewells the Qantas 767 as retirement nearsCanberra Airport has said farewell to the Qantas Boeing 767 after the airline operated its last flight with the twin-aisle aircraft to the national capital on Sunday night. The countdown to the eventual exit of all 767-300ERs from the Qantas fleet on December 27 is well and truly underway, with the Flying Kangaroo down to five operating
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Jetgo inaugural RPT service lands in Gladstone
/ | 6 Comments on Jetgo inaugural RPT service lands in GladstoneJetgo’s first scheduled regular public transport (RPT) flight has landed at Gladstone Airport. Flight JG70 took off from Sydney Airport at 0610 local time on Monday bound for the Queensland port city, where it landed about 90 minutes later. The aircraft, a 36-seat Embraer ERJ 135 jet, was greeted by an Airservices ARFF water cannon salute as
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Stewart Wilson named Australia’s aviation journalist of 2014
/ | 1 Comment on Stewart Wilson named Australia’s aviation journalist of 2014Stewart Wilson from Aero Australia has taken out the aviation journalist of the year for 2014 at the National Aviation Press Club awards, edging out Australian Aviation senior contributor Geoffrey Thomas who was named runner-up in that category. Thomas won two other awards at the presentation dinner, which took place in Sydney on Friday November
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Virgin receives WA gov’t OK for regional route reductions
/ | 6 Comments on Virgin receives WA gov’t OK for regional route reductionsVirgin Australia has received approval from the West Australian government to reduce flights on regulated routes to four regional towns in the state’s south. As part of the changes due to be gradually introduced from December 5, the number of Perth-Albany flights will be cut to 15 per week, from 20 currently, while the Perth-Esperance route
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