The World of Aviation

The first Bombardier Challenger 350 business jet has entered service with worldwide launch customer, NetJets. The milestone follows FAA certification being awarded in early June, and marks the official service entry for the new type. “The addition of the Challenger 350 aircraft to our fleet is a significant step in NetJets’ continued growth, and clearly

Regional Express has been unsuccessful in proceedings it brought against the Dubbo City Council in the NSW Land & Environment Court. The airline had argued that it should not have to pay screening charges or be forced to pass the costs of doing so at Dubbo Airport on to its passengers. The action was brought

Sikorsky Aircraft has been awarded a US$1.28 billion engineering and manufacturing development contract to develop a variant of its UH-60M Black Hawk for the US Air Force’s Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) requirement. An initial four Combat Rescue Helicopters will be acquired under the EMD contract, which will see the development and integration of the new helicopter’s rescue

A power outage attributed to an issue with an electrical substation caused chaos at Sydney Airport’s domestic Terminal 2 on Friday morning, resulting in disruptions to flights operated by tenants Virgin Australia, Jetstar, Tigerair and Regional Express. The outage, which lasted about three hours, meant airlines could not process passenger check-ins, nor could security screening

Defence has released this terrific image by FLTLT Michael Head showing a RAAF 33SQN KC-30A tanker refuelling two 3SQN F/A-18A Hornets, with a further four Hornets off each wingtip, during Exercise Arnhem Thunder 2014 last month.

Cessna has received US FAA certification for the Citation X+, allowing the first customer delivery of what it promotes as the “world’s fastest civil aircraft” to businessman Gerry Buchheit. “We have clients located across the country and having the fastest civil aircraft in my fleet provides me with something that is priceless to my operations –