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WA’s Team ZIC wins 2025 Outback Air Race

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September 16, 2025
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Team ZIC, who placed fifth in 2018 and second in 2022, recorded multiple near-perfect legs, finishing in the top two on six of the nine segments. Racers Scott Palmer and Adam Dean defeated 36 other teams in the precision time-trial, where scoring depen…

Poor training kills, warn authors of general aviation study

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September 4, 2025
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According to official figures cited by the researchers, light aircraft account for over 90 per cent of aviation-related fatalities. More than half the studies reviewed found human factors, including pilot error, poor decision-making, and reduced situat…

ATSB investigates near miss between light plane and RAAF aircraft

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September 4, 2025
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The light aircraft, registered as VH-TKK, was diverted to RAAF Base Tindal after a total electrical failure and came within close proximity of two military aircraft on final approach using the same runway.

Bankstown Airport greenlit for major hangar development

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September 4, 2025
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Part of Bankstown’s $60 million Aviation Hangar Project Major Development Plan (MDP), the project will see the construction of two new hangars and associated facilities, which will support up to 10 GA operations in the southwest Sydney region.

Dramatic Lizard Island Cessna crash caused by engine malfunction

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August 22, 2025
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VH-NWJ, a Cessna 208B operated by East Air, was returning to Lizard Island on 8 January 2024 with nine passengers on board after the pilot noticed a significant uncommanded increase in engine power, but overshot the runway, flipped over and came to res…

Lucky escape for 2 men after golf course Cherokee crash

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August 18, 2025
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The 1967 Piper Cherokee PA-28-140, VH-BUN, made an emergency landing on the 15th hole of Mona Vale Golf Course at around 2pm on Sunday, having flown north from Shellharbour via Camden. The pilot and passenger, both 50 years old, safely exited the heavi…

New survey sounds alarm on mental health in general aviation

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August 11, 2025
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The first National General Aviation (GA) Culture and Wellbeing Survey, conducted by Navigating Aviation, found 76 per cent of current GA workers are concerned about mental health issues in the industry and 59 per cent believe there is a “culture of sil…

Searchers scour Bass Strait for missing light plane

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August 4, 2025
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The pilot in his early 70s and his female passenger in her 60s departed George Town Airport in Tasmania at around 12:45pm bound for Hillston in central western NSW via Leongatha, with the alarm raised at around 5pm that evening after they failed to arr…

Neurologist completes ‘Fly for Kids’ journey around Australia

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July 28, 2025
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Associate professor Andrew Kornberg has already raised more than $2 million of his $4.5 million target and undertook the flight in his own single-engine plane.

Slow take-off in wind behind 20-year-old pilot’s death

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July 10, 2025
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Jack Miller’s aircraft stalled shortly after leaving the ground at Bacchus Marsh, north‑west of Melbourne, in October last year, before entering a vertical descent into the ground.