Boeing has celebrated 50 years since it delivered its last B-52 Stratofortress to the US Air Force. Of 744 B-52s built between 1952 and 1962, H-model 61-040 was assigned to Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota where it remains in active service. The USAF currently has 76 H-model B-52s in service, with two test
GippsAERO has named Denmark-based European Aircraft Sales as its dealer for Scandinavia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Operating for 40 years, European Aircraft Sales will provide sales and service support to GippsAERO’s GA8 Airvan. The manufacturer has produced more than 200 Airvans, which are now in service in 34 countries.
An example of the very rare Ilyushin Il-76MF has made a visit to Australia, with JY-JID ‘361’ operated by Jordan International Air Cargo visiting Perth and Melbourne this week. The freighter arrived from Colombo, Sri Lanka as flight ‘RJZ361’ on October 25 before later departing to Melbourne. The Il-76MF is a stretched and re-engined (with Aviadvigatel PS-90As) development of the
Air Mauritius will add a third weekly flight to Perth from April 1 next year. The additional flight each Friday represents a 50 per cent increase in capacity and complements the existing Wednesday and Sunday schedule. The three services will be operated using an Airbus A330 in a two-class configuration of 24 business class and
Before it has even started services between Honolulu and Brisbane, Hawaiian Airlines is adding capacity between the two cities in response to demand for services between March and May 2013. The airline, which starts flights to Brisbane on November 28, will add 18 flights – or 4,700 seats – to the existing schedule of three
Singapore Airlines will increase to 12 the number of weekly flights to Adelaide From July 4 next year. Operated by Airbus A330s featuring the airline’s latest medium haul business class product, the additional services to Adelaide each Thursday and Sunday means Singapore Airlines will now operate 112 flights a week between Australia and Singapore. Adelaide’s largest
