Sydney Airport presently poses the greatest single threat to the future of Regional Airlines in Australia. Three major NSW Regional operators – Aeropelican, Eastern Australia and Hazelton, who between them last year carried nearly 400,000 passengers are facing major problems with operations through Sydney Airport. The continuing Air Traffic Controllers dispute combined with bad weather

More on Migs Following the item in our September Warbirds column, regarding the arrival of MiG-15 two seat trainers in Australia,the originator of the scheme to import the aircraft, Randel McFarlane, has been in contact. Randel, Operations Manager of Norfolk Airlines, has advised that the five two seat trainers are the only MiG-15s to come

Bristow Wins Sar Contract Perth based Bristow Helicopters has won a RAAF contract for Search and Rescue work to be carried out at RAAF Pearce, home of the air force’s advanced flying training school. The company will use a Bell 212 for the three year contract which starts in December. The company will also be

A Lot of Lessons in Kangaroo 89 Exercise Quite a lot of lessons have been learned following the big Kangaroo 89 Exercise held across northern Australia through July, August and September with several suspected problem areas being confirmed. The provision of aerial refuelling tankers was shown as being absolutely essential if the new RAAF F-18