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Airnorth to bring back seasonal Perth-Kununurra-Darwin flights
/ | 4 Comments on Airnorth to bring back seasonal Perth-Kununurra-Darwin flightsAirnorth plans to again offer flights between Kununurra and Perth during the Top End dry season. The regional carrier has scheduled a once weekly Darwin-Kununurra-Perth rotation to operate from June 23 to September 30. The service will depart Darwin on Friday afternoons and arrive in Perth in the early evening, after a 30-minute stop in Kununurra.
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Schiebel Camcopter S-100 wins Navy VTOL UAS deal
/ | 6 Comments on Schiebel Camcopter S-100 wins Navy VTOL UAS dealThe Department of Defence has awarded Austria’s Schiebel Group a contract to supply its Camcopter S-100 to meet the Royal Australian Navy’s interim vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial system (UAS) requirement. Signed in late December, the contract fulfils a request for tender (RFT) for Navy Minor Project (NMP) 1942 which sought to procure a
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RAAF marks 5,000 hours of King Air 350 simulator training at Sale
/ | 1 Comment on RAAF marks 5,000 hours of King Air 350 simulator training at SaleDuring a ceremony held at CAE’s Sale training centre, Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester joined Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) officers and officials from the company to mark the occasion of the RAAF surpassing 5,000 hours of simulator training since the facility opened in 2014. The training centre was constructed by CAE as
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Qatar arrives in Auckland
/ | 7 Comments on Qatar arrives in AucklandAfter a couple of false starts, Qatar Airways has commenced nonstop flights between Doha and New Zealand. The inaugural service QR920, operated by a Boeing 777-200LR, touched down at Auckland Airport at 0715 on Monday, after a 16-hour journey from Doha. The aircraft, A7-BBB, received a traditional welcome as it taxiied to the gate after
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Cathay boosts Adelaide-Hong Kong to five times weekly
Cathay Pacific is bringing back a fifth weekly flight between Adelaide and Hong Kong from early July. The oneworld alliance member has been operating five flights a week on the route since December 2016, with the service operated by Airbus A330-300s due to drop back to four flights a week at the end of March
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Airservices appoints new noise ombudsman
/Airservices has named Narelle Bell as the next Aircraft Noise Ombudsman. Bell begins in the role on Wednesday. She replaces Ron Brent, who is stepping down after six years as the Aircraft Noise Ombudsman. Airservices chairman Sir Angus Houston said Bell had deep experience in the public service and as a lawyer, having served 13
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