The World of Aviation

Jetstar is likely to establish a second A320/A321 maintenance base on the east coast to support its growing fleet of narrowbodies. “We’re far down the track in terms of evaluation of options but we’ve got a broad set of options and they include all the major centres on the east coast,” Jetstar chief executive Bruce

The federal government must put a night time curfew on Jandakot Airport in Perth’s south if a fourth runway is approved, according to the mayor of the local government area the airport is in. City of Cockburn Mayor Logan Howlett told Fairfax press that with the additional runway that movements at the airport would rise

The first of 18 new build F-16C/D Block 52s for Pakistan was rolled out at Fort Worth on October 13. The aircraft, part of the Peace Drive I program, was presented to the Chief of the Pakistani Air Force. The order includes an initial 12 F-16Cs and six F-16Ds plus options on a further 20

Air Vanuatu took delivery of its new 68-seat ATR 72-500 at Toulouse on October 8. The aircraft, to be registered YJ-AV72, subsequently arrived in Cairns (registered F-WNUG) on October 12 from Kupang on its delivery flight to Port Vila. It will be used on domestic and regional services, and will replace the airline’s existing ATR

Cessna has resumed production of the Model 350 Corvalis and 400 Corvalis TT models, albeit at Indepedence, Kansas, rather than their former home of Bend, Oregon. Cessna closed the former Columbia Aircraft facility at Bend where the models were produced in April due to the global financial crisis hitting demand for the high performance composite

A Qatar Airways A340-600 operating a flight from London Gatwick to Doha has made the first passenger flight powered by gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuel. The fuel was a 50/50 blend of conventional jet fuel and GTL developed by Shell, which recently gained certification from ASTM International. The State of Qatar is planning to put the fuel