If you’re looking to purchase the August issue of Australian Aviation on the news-stand, please note we have moved to a Thursday on-sale date from August issue onwards. August Australian Aviation will go on sale across Australia from Thursday August 1. Thereafter, Australian Aviation will go on sale on the last Thursday of the month
The 100th F-35 Lightning II has entered the last stage of final assembly. The CTOL F-35A variant aircraft is due to arrive at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona in 2014, and is one of 126 F-35s currently in production, according to Lockheed Martin. Luke AFB is set to be the largest F-35 base in
Bombardier has confirmed it will delay by some weeks the first flight of its CSeries regional jet. The company said: “The highly technical last steps are taking more time than initially anticipated to validate the overall systems and ongoing software integration”. The aircraft’s twice-delayed first flight was expected by the end of July. “While the
Low-cost Malaysian carrier AirAsia X is to add Adelaide to its Australian network from October 30. The city becomes the airline’s fifth destination in Australia and will be operated four times a week using two-class A330s. Adelaide is the latest development in an aggressive Australian expansion for AirAsia X, having recently announced an increase in
The first 787-9 has emerged from the paintshop sporting Boeing’s new revised livery that includes a prominent number on the tail to help distinguish among models within the same product family. Boeing says the 787-9 is “on track to roll out and fly… in late summer”. The 787-9 has a fuselage stretched by 6m and will
Australia has sold “at a discounted rate” an additional five ex-RAAF C‑130H aircraft and associated equipment to Indonesia. “The sale of a further five C-130H transport aircraft will further enhance Indonesia’s capacity to respond to natural disasters and humanitarian crisis,” Minister for Defence Stephen Smith said. A memorandum of sale covering the five aircraft, a
