The US Government has awarded Boeing a US$1.94 billion fixed price contract for the production of 11 F/A-18E Super Hornets and 33 EA-18G Growlers for the US Navy. Included in the Growler procurement are the 12 EA-18Gs for Australia, production of which commenced last month at Northrop Grumman’s El Segundo facility in Los Angeles. The
The popular quarterly periodical Aero Australia magazine has been bought from nextmedia by Wilson Media. Owned by magazine Editor Stewart Wilson and wife Wendy Wilson, Aero is a quarterly aviation magazine produced at Bungendore near Canberra. It was launched in 2003 with Stewart Wilson at the helm, and covers all genres of aviation. “Wendy and
Sydney Airport’s Ground Based Augmentation System – GBAS – has been commissioned into service, clearing the way for operational use of the technology which ultimately promises GPS-augmented precision guidance approaches to CAT III mimima standards. Sydney Airport’s GBAS system was launched on Wednesday by Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss as well as Airservices acting CEO,
Qantas began direct Sydney-Hamilton Island flights on Wednesday, its first services to the Queensland resort island in almost a decade. The airline has launched three times weekly (Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday) return flights during peak season – July, plus September-January – and twice weekly (Wednesday and Sunday) return flights during offpeak times. The flights, QF866
Airbus has completed assembly of its first A320neo after the aircraft was painted in Airbus corporate colours and its Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines were fitted. Airbus says flight testing of the A320neo will commence in September, ahead of entry into service planned for the fourth quarter of 2015. The neo – new engine option
The Queensland Police Service has formally launched its second police helicopter, Brisbane-based BO 105 VH-PVK, which is scheduled to begin operational policing duties from July 5. The 1996 model BO 105 CBS-5 will be operated for Queensland Police by Surf Life Saving Queensland on a two-year contract through until July 2015, and has been extensively refurbished
