CareFlight Group Queensland is celebrating five years since it commenced its safety instruction program through the provision of training to Dubai’s Police Force Air Wing. In five years, three CareFlight instructors have spent more than 2,000 hours training more than 70 Abu Dhabi Police pilots and 40 aircrewmen in search and rescue operations and night
The RAAF has deployed a C-130J Hercules with ADF Department of Foreign Affairs personnel on board to the Solomon Islands following severe flooding in the island nation. The ADF says the team of 11 ADF personnel and DFAT advisor will assess the scope of what assistance may be required in the Solomons. This comes after
The first Boeing 787-9 for launch customer Air New Zealand has been rolled out of the paintshop at Boeing’s Everett factory in a stunning special all-black and silver fern livery. The aircraft – which will be registered ZK-NZE – took five days to paint using 350 litres of paint, and will now enter a factory
A full-scale mockup of the F-35 Lightning II is set to be one of the highlights of the Canberra Airport Open Day on Sunday, marking the first ‘visit’ by the aircraft expected to replace the RAAF’s F/A-18A/B classic Hornet fleet to the nation’s capital. Lockheed Martin’s F-35 mockup is no stranger to Australia, having been
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Defence Minister Senator David Johnston have announced that current Vice Chief of Defence Force (VCDF) AIRMSHL Mark Binskin will be promoted to Air Chief Marshal and will succeed GEN David Hurley as Chief of Defence Force (CDF) in the next command rotations in July. Binskin joined the RAAF as a
The ‘Team 21’ grouping of Lockheed Martin Australia, Pilatus and Hawker Pacific submitted its bid for the ADF’s AIR 5428 pilot training system on March 31. The bid, based around the Pilatus PC-21 advanced trainer, is similar to that which the same partners manage the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s Basic Wings Course (BWC) program
