The first-of-class flight trials, to be conducted off the East Coast of Australia for the Australian Army’s UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, have already begun with aircraft deployed to HMAS Canberra LHD at Fleet Base East.
Acquired through foreign military sales with the United States, the Apaches are expected to provide critical aviation effects, including reconnaissance, communications and networking, firepower and offensive support.
Qantas in the 2023-24 financial year exhausted its pandemic-related carry-over losses and paid $24 million in tax in the latter half of the year, while Virgin says it expects to begin paying income tax again in the 2026 financial year once its own carr…
A Eurocopter AS 350 (registration unknown), which was conducting agricultural spraying operations near Holbrook, NSW, on 3 September, hit a wire with its skids and lost control, crashing into the ground and catching fire; despite this, the pilot was ab…
According to reports this week in the Wall Street Journal, the planemaker’s CEO Kelly Ortberg met with Rolls-Royce officials in the UK earlier this year to discuss engine options for the aircraft, while “a person familiar with the plans” said Boeing is…
Fleet Space says its 5,300-square-metre facility will boost Australia’s advanced manufacturing capacity, enabling the production of thousands of next-generation geophysical sensors and hundreds of satellites annually.
A total of 43 pilots from Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the United States, plus new teams from Belgium, Germany and the Philippines competed in the three-day competition from 16 to 18 September.
On this week’s Australian Aviation podcast, Jake has a full trip report of the inaugural flight of the Qantas A321XLR, and he and David discuss what it will do for the airline both domestically and internationally.