The World of Aviation

Minister for Defence Materiel and Science, Greg Combet, has announced that 11 former Army and RAAF UH-1H Iroquois helicopters will be taken out of storage and put on display as gate guards and museum exhibits at locations around Australia. The aircraft, which have been in storage in Brisbane since they were retired in 2007, will

The RAAF’s Townville based 38SQN has taken delivery of its final new build King Air 350 Interim Light Transport from local distributor and in-service support contractor Hawker Pacific, adding to the four new build aircraft and the three King Airs the squadron took over from the Army’s 173SQN. The aircraft are leased from Hawker Pacific

NSW Department of Education chief information officer (CIO) Stephen Wilson will take on the same role with Qantas from August 30, according to reports, replacing Segar Reddy, who has resigned. Wilson will report to Qantas group executive corporate services and technology David Hall.

Strategic Airlines has announced plans to operate a weekly Brisbane-Port Hedland-Denpasar (Bali) flight from August 3 using a two class, 156-seat Airbus A320. The Port Hedland-Denpasar service will depart Port Hedland every Tuesday at 2.15pm and arrive in Denpasar at 4.15pm. The return flight will depart Denpasar at 8.00am each Wednesday, and arrive at Port

Spirit AeroSystems and Airbus officially opened a new 46,450m2 manufacturing plant on July 1 in Kinston, North Carolina, which is designing and will manufacture composite centre fuselage upper and lower shells and front wing spars for the Airbus A350 XWB. Design work for the components has been underway for approximately two years, with manufacturing set

The RAAF formally re-formed famed WW2 Bomber Command unit 460SQN during a ceremony held at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on July 2. Under the command of WGCDR Pete Wooding, the re-formed 460SQN is a unit with the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (DIGO), and has been established to provide the ADF with geospatial