The World of Aviation

Australian Cessna dealer Aeromil Pacific has announced that a Citation XLS+ will commence an Australian sales tour from June 28. The XLS+ typically seats eight passengers, with a cruise speed of 440 KTAS at 31,000ft and a range of 1858nm. The aircraft is powered by two Pratt & Whitney PW545C engines, which produce 18.32kN of

Parliament has passed legislation which will increase the excise on aviation fuel which will increase funding to CASA. The rise in excise to 3.556 cents per litre will provide an additional $89.9 million annually to CASA. The government says that this will allow it to employ an additional 97 safety specialists, safety analysts and airworthiness

Vietnam Airlines has switched an order for 16 Boeing 787-8s to the larger -9 model, citing the unexpected performance limitations of the -8. “The -8 doesn’t meet the performance guarantee as they told me,” Vietnam Airlines CEO Pham Ngoc Minh told Flightglobal during a meeting of the SkyTeam alliance in New York. “We found the

Passenger and freight traffic continued its strong upward trend through May, according to statistics released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA). Passenger numbers for the month increased by 17.6 per cent compared to the same time last year, pushing revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) up by 14.6 per cent. Capacity growth of 3.3 per

Northrop Grumman has gone on the front foot in promoting its Global Hawk program following recent criticism of the program by USAF acquisitions head, David Van Buren. With the program due to go before the US Defense Acquisitions Board (DAB) review this week, Northrop Grumman has released a statement outlining the program’s successes in recent

Australian company Micreo has produced its 500th component for Raytheon’s ALR-67(V)3 radar warning receiver. Micreo was inducted into the supply chain in early 2008 and has been supplying radio frequency modules for all ALR-67(V)3s including those being retrofitted to RAAF F/A-18 ‘classic’ Hornets and those delivered with the F/A-18F Super Hornets. “I am delighted to