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An RAAF KC-30 has completed refuelling clearance trials with a US Air Force F-22 Raptor, adding another type to the type’s growing list of authorised receiver aircraft.

Alliance Aviation Services has reaffirmed plans to add nine aircraft to its operating fleet during the 2018/19 financial year.

With divers raising the flight data recorder from the Boeing 737 MAX on Thursday, premature conclusions are already being drawn about the cause of the crash of flight JT610 into the Java Sea shortly after departure from Jakarta this Monday.

In this Australian Aviation August 2017 feature story, John Walton looks at Boeing’s 737 MAX 10 narrowbody that was the talk of the 2017 Paris Airshow.

Adelaide Airport says revenue rose eight per cent to $214mln in 2017/18 amid good domestic growth and significantly increased international traffic.

With the crash of a brand-new Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX off the coast of Jakarta on Monday, armchair experts have rushed to judgement in criticising this brand new aircraft type. So for today’s Throwback Thursday article from the Australian Aviation archives, we revisit this April 2016 feature that delves into the comprehensive development history of the 737 MAX program.