Army Black Hawks head south The Army marked the end of its S-70A-9 Black Hawk operations at Townsville on August 18 with a ceremonial flyover by six Black Hawks from B Squadron, 5 Aviation Regiment. Bad weather days earlier had delayed the flypast that saw the six-ship formation, followed close behind by three MRH 90

Qantas Group news In this issue we report on the delivery of three 737-800s to Qantas, two 787-8s to Jetstar and a Dash 8-Q400 to QantasLink, and the departures of two Qantas 767‑300ERs. Qantas took delivery of 737-838 VH-XZL Flinders in Brisbane on July 30 after the aircraft completed its ferry flight from Boeing Field

CareFlight in the Top End melds aviation with medicine Aeromedical retrieval services have provided Northern Territorians with fast access to medical care since the early 1930s. Now more than 80 years after Dr Clyde Fenton’s pioneering medical flights out of Katherine, CareFlight has expanded its lifesaving rotary and fixed-wing operations to serve Territorians and visitors

Technology and tourism is driving a traffic boom at New Zealand’s Queenstown Airport Through the introduction of jet operations and new instrument approach procedures, Queenstown Airport has become New Zealand’s fourth busiest and its fastest-growing airport. But as recently as the late 1980s Queenstown, which sits in the shadows of the 7,500ft Remarkables mountain range,