Category: Civil Aviation

The twin-engine plane, which the Western Australian government says is the only aircraft of its type operated by an Australian law enforcement agency, will be used for rapid response to emergencies in regional WA, including critical incidents, major in…

The hackers are claiming to have exfiltrated 57 gigabytes of data, totalling more than 68,000 files. Employee credentials, records, and access cards, as well as airworthiness and aircraft registration certificates, have allegedly been compromised.

AGAIR has been stripped of its air operator’s certificate (AOC) and aerial work certificate (AWC), with the ABC reporting the aviation regulator found that the company had neglected essential maintenance and created a culture of poor safety. A challeng…

VH-RRP, a Kubíček BB142P hot air balloon, sustained the 45cm tear while being cold-inflated prior to an early-morning flight near Beaudesert in Queensland on 18 October last year, and was patched up in the field with “specialised adhesive tape”, accord…

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…