The World of Aviation

Adelaide Airport has suffered a sharp downturn in profit, with the pre-tax result for 2011-12 slumping to $6.7 million from $21.1 million in the previous year. Total revenue fell from $153 million to $147 million. Chairman David Munt said the grounding of Tiger Airways and its decision not to resume services to Adelaide, coupled with

The RAAF’s Central Flying School plans to mark its centenary of formation in March 1913 with a reunion dinner at its East Sale, Victoria base on March 8 2013. CFS first formed on March 7 1913 at Point Cook near Melbourne as the first flying unit within the Australian Flying Corps. The unit has been

Qantas has announced further maintenance staff job losses as its Avalon base, a reduction in line maintenance positions at Sydney, and cuts at Qantas Defence Services with the loss of RAAF C-130H maintenance work, although 120 positions are also being created in Brisbane. With the winding up of a program to refurbish nine 747-400s with

The RAAF’s sixth C-17 Globemaster airlifter touched down at its new home base of RAAF Amberley on November 6 at the end of its delivery flight from the US. C-17 A41-211 was formally handed over to the RAAF in a ceremony at Boeing’s Long Beach plant on November 1, and it joins five other C-17s

Chief of Air Force Air Marshal Geoff Brown has observed production of the centre fuselage for the first RAAF F-35A Joint Strike Fighter during a visit to Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale, California facility last week. AIRMSHL Brown toured Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Assembly Line, which produces F-35 centre fuselage sections, and where the first inlet ducts for

Perth Airport is re-numbering its terminals ahead of the opening of its new domestic terminal early next year. International airlines continue to operate from Terminal 1, while Virgin Australia, Alliance Airlines, Skywest and Tiger Airways operate from Terminal 3. Qantas domestic services remain in the same building which will be re-numbered as Terminal 4. When it opens next