Australia grounds Tiger fleet after German helicopter crashes Defence has grounded the Australian Army’s Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter fleet, following a fatal crash involving a German Tiger in Mali. As of August 14, Defence decided to cease flying operations “until further information becomes available”, a spokesperson for Defence told Australian Aviation. This content is available

Ninety-nine per cent there on OneSky contract – Airservices chair Airservices Australia board chair Sir Angus Houston has told a Senate committee that the air navigation service provider is “99 per cent ready to go” to sign contracts for the new OneSky air traffic management system. Since February 2015, Airservices has been negotiating with Thales

Celebrating 40 years of Australian Aviation Remarkably, as the first edition of AADR was going to press I really became concerned that there would be nothing to put in next year’s edition! Maybe I had already written about all there was to report on in the foreseeable future and there was nothing more to cover?”