The World of Aviation

The popular quarterly periodical Aero Australia magazine has been bought from nextmedia by Wilson Media. Owned by magazine Editor Stewart Wilson and wife Wendy Wilson, Aero is a quarterly aviation magazine produced at Bungendore near Canberra. It was launched in 2003 with Stewart Wilson at the helm, and covers all genres of aviation. “Wendy and

Sydney Airport’s Ground Based Augmentation System – GBAS – has been commissioned into service, clearing the way for operational use of the technology which ultimately promises GPS-augmented precision guidance approaches to CAT III mimima standards. Sydney Airport’s GBAS system was launched on Wednesday by Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss as well as Airservices acting CEO,

Qantas began direct Sydney-Hamilton Island flights on Wednesday, its first services to the Queensland resort island in almost a decade. The airline has launched three times weekly (Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday) return flights during peak season – July, plus September-January – and twice weekly (Wednesday and Sunday) return flights during offpeak times. The flights, QF866

Airbus has completed assembly of its first A320neo after the aircraft was painted in Airbus corporate colours and its Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines were fitted. Airbus says flight testing of the A320neo will commence in September, ahead of entry into service planned for the fourth quarter of 2015. The neo – new engine option

The Queensland Police Service has formally launched its second police helicopter, Brisbane-based BO 105 VH-PVK, which is scheduled to begin operational policing duties from July 5. The 1996 model BO 105 CBS-5 will be operated for Queensland Police by Surf Life Saving Queensland on a two-year contract through until July 2015, and has been extensively refurbished

  Former Vice Chief of Defence Force, AIRMSHL Mark Binskin, has been promoted to Air Chief Marshal and sworn in as the nation’s new Chief of Defence Force in a ceremony in Canberra on June 30. ACM Binskin is a former RAAF Mirage and Hornet pilot after transferring from the RAN following the decommissioning of the