Ambitious SkyAirWorld wound up Former Embraer E-Jet operator SkyAirWorld (SAW) became the latest airline to disappear into the sky after it fell into administration on March 13, only a few weeks after announcing that it was ‘pausing’ to restructure. Sources attending the first creditor’s meeting on March 25 told Australian Aviation that the company owes
Boeing updates the F-15 Boeing revealed in late March that it is developing a new variant of the venerable F-15 which it hopes will take on the fifth generation F-35 and a number of 4.5 generation fighters currently on the market. The new model, internally dubbed F-15SE ‘Silent Eagle’, will features a number of design
The future of the Douglas DC-3 which operated Trans Australia Airlines’ first flight more than 50 years ago has been firmed up after Qantas announced a new partnership which will support the preservation and operation of the aircraft. Announced on March 13 at the Australian International Airshow, the DC-3, which is registered VH-SBA and known
On the 25th February Peter ‘Pip’ Borrman died as a result of a mechanical failure while practicing in his Pitts Samson for the Australian International Airshow. It would be fair to say that in life many of us have role models or heroes who we admire, look up too or even aspire to emulate their
The low cost battle for dominance of the Australian and Asian markets between Tiger Airways and Jetstar intensified with two key moves announced in early April. Firstly, Qantas announced on April 2 that it was taking greater control of Singapore based Jetstar Asia in partnership with Singaporean company Westbrook Investments, with the two companies taking
Despite Northrop Grumman doubling its efforts in recent months to state its case for the RQ-4N Global Hawk as a contender to partially replace the RAAF’s AP-3C Orions with a long endurance UAV from late next decade under Project Air 7000 Phase 1B, the Commonwealth has decided to not participate in the US Navy’s Broad