The company will now continue its Australian search-and-rescue operations until the end of 2030 across both land and maritime domains using its specialised fleet of Bombardier Challenger aircraft.
In a newly-released study, the national transport safety watchdog examined 79 balloon occurrences reported to it between 2024 and 2022, and found that ballooning “carried a higher risk to fare paying passengers” than flights in other aircraft, with lan…
Horizontal Falls Seaplane Adventures (HFSA), Australia’s largest seaplane operator, offered employment to the pilots during the “highly competitive” accreditation program.
The charity, which uses planes to help those in isolated communities, said its new Cessna 208 Caravan would give flight simulations to schoolchildren in Redcliffe, Queensland, before continuing around the country.
The report details the events of the crash and the subsequent escape by four passengers on board the Cessna Caravan VH-WTY, which was registered to Swan River Seaplanes, after it hit the water off Thomson Bay on 7 January. Two other passengers, as well…
The bodies of 67-year-old Mark White, chief flying instructor at Midcoast Microlights, and 69-year-old Simon Peutrill have been recovered after their Sting S4, registered 23-1677 (similar aircraft pictured), plunged into the ocean near Scotts Head in t…
The Cessna 150, VH-EYU, appeared to stall and collided with the ground shortly after take-off from Bacchus Marsh Aerodrome at Parwan in Melbourne’s North West at around 11:20am, killing its male pilot. The plane was registered to Bacchus Marsh Aero Clu…
The police force will lease a Pilatus PC-24 and upgrade its existing PC-12 fleet, with the twin-engine PC-24 expected to halve the current travel time from Perth to towns such as Kununurra while being able to land on unsealed outback airstrips.
VH-HJE ran out of fuel en route from Bankstown to Archerfield on 7 April 2023 on the return leg of a freight charter flight, the ATSB said in its final report. It struck multiple trees on its way down, sustaining “substantial” damage but inflicting onl…
In its final report, the transport safety watchdog found that the control yoke was likely continually pushed forward during the steep descent of VH-CPQ, which crashed on 24 January, killing its student pilot, but could not find a reason for the strange…