The World of Aviation

The Royal Australian Air Force’s KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport fleet has surpassed the 20,000 flying hours milestone since entering service in 2011. This milestone was reached during a mission from Yokota Air Base in Japan – having supported the return of Pacific Air Forces F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft – to Kuala Lumpur as

NEW ALLOCATIONS REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS AQG/4 Cessna T206H Stationair T20609237 19/9/16 State of New South Wales, PO Box 250 Milperra NSW 2214 N7131V CTD/3 Vans RV-7A 74148 4/10/16 Gavin Ennis, 280 Flamborough St Doubleview WA 6018 CWS/4 Kavanagh E-240 E240-524 28/9/16 Global Ballooning, 1/173-175 Swan St Richmond Vic 3121 DUX/3 Kavanagh E-240 E240-525 19/9/16 Global

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation has started flight tests of its Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) program at the company’s Moses Lake Flight Test Centre just outside Seattle. The company said in a statement flight test aircraft FTA-1 successfully completed a three-hour-and-18-minute flight on Monday, October 17. The aircraft, with its distinctive pointed nose, took off from Grant

Ticket prices for Australian domestic travel across all cabin classes were up at close to multi-year highs in October, new figures show. The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) measure of domestic business class airfares was at 95.2 index points in September, up from 89.7 points a year earlier. The measure has risen

More than seven in 10 air travellers now board their flight with a mobile boarding pass as the trend towards self-service checkin and off-site passenger facilitation grows, new figures show. The International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) 2016 global passenger survey found travellers today were willing to take advantage of advances in technology to do more traditional

There is less than two weeks remaining for those working at Australian Airports Association (AAA) member airports to submit their entries for its photograph of the year competition. Photographs must have been taken after July 1 2015 and of “an object or activity at any airport in Australia”, the AAA said, with “all employees of