Qantas’s A380 project was named the National Project of the Year by the Australian Institute of Project Managers in Adelaide on October 13. The project beat 107 other submissions to take out the prize. The AIPM noted that that the $2 billion project took six years and involved more than 1000 people while also having
The federal government must put a night time curfew on Jandakot Airport in Perth’s south if a fourth runway is approved, according to the mayor of the local government area the airport is in. City of Cockburn Mayor Logan Howlett told Fairfax press that with the additional runway that movements at the airport would rise
The first of 18 new build F-16C/D Block 52s for Pakistan was rolled out at Fort Worth on October 13. The aircraft, part of the Peace Drive I program, was presented to the Chief of the Pakistani Air Force. The order includes an initial 12 F-16Cs and six F-16Ds plus options on a further 20
Air Vanuatu took delivery of its new 68-seat ATR 72-500 at Toulouse on October 8. The aircraft, to be registered YJ-AV72, subsequently arrived in Cairns (registered F-WNUG) on October 12 from Kupang on its delivery flight to Port Vila. It will be used on domestic and regional services, and will replace the airline’s existing ATR
Cessna has resumed production of the Model 350 Corvalis and 400 Corvalis TT models, albeit at Indepedence, Kansas, rather than their former home of Bend, Oregon. Cessna closed the former Columbia Aircraft facility at Bend where the models were produced in April due to the global financial crisis hitting demand for the high performance composite
A push by the Recreational Aviation Australia (RA-Aus) to increase the maximum takeoff weight limit of aircraft which can use the RA-Aus register has been closed by CASA. Under the RA-Aus request, CASA started a project in June 2006 to examine a proposal to increase the MTOW limit for aircraft operating under CAO 95.55 to
