TAA Stop the Guessing Game and Select the A320: TAA made Airbus Industrie’s year when on December 20 they announced their long awaited order for 9 A320- 200 twinjets. TAA ordered the A320s in preference to the Boeing 757 to cap off a fantastic sales year for Al which saw them write contracts on up

Beechcraft Buy the Mitsubishi Diamond Line: Long wanting a corporate jet product, Beechcraft moved late in 1985 to buy the entire production operation of the Mitsubishi Diamond. The Diamond I and IA, along with the MU-2 Solitaire and Marquis have been dropped in favour of concentrating resources on the Diamond Beech will now market the

Oil Price Drop Holds Many Implications for Aviation: The massive drop in crude oil prices through the early months of this year certainly holds a variety of portents for international aviation. Winners will be airlines using older techno-aircraft such as the 727-100 and hush kit- ted 707s and DC-8s in addition to early models of

Farewell Credibility, Farewell! December 16th, 1985 was a sad day for the Australian aerospace industry for it was the day that whatever remained of an indigenous design and development capability within Australia well and truly died. The Government’s decision to purchase the Pilatus PC-9 over the locally bred A1OB represents the final blow to the