The airfield BP refuelling depot is undergoing a change of position with a new underground storage tank and facilities being installed right alongside the centre staged Mobil depot

The aircraft sales business of Noel Notley Queensland - started by Noel in 1980 at the airfield Main Terminal and now run by Jack Hughes - has relocated the office "off field" due to the current slow economic climate

A new modern technology Zeppelin Airship has received certification in Germany and is now preparing for commercial flights in June of this year



The first flight of a Zeppelin - the LZ 1 - took place on Lake Constance in Germany on the 2nd July 1900 with the maiden flight of this current and unique semi-rigid airship undertaken on 18th September 1997

A Qantas Boeing 737 from Coolangatta, with 106 passengers aboard, is reported on Friday night as aborting its landing when another aircraft was on the runway, the second such incident at Melbourne's Tullamarine airport in a week

As well as new aircraft coming onto the airfield in the booming seventies at AF another by-product, aircraft maintenance shops, also established themselves to cater for the demand of services required by aircraft owners




After more than 25 years at Archerfield repairing and tuning aircraft radios, the well known and appropriately named business - The Radio Centre - has been reported to the News Desk this week as "packing up and relocating to Coolangatta airport"

USA's Lockheed Martin Space Systems would like GPS users to complete an on-line survey and describe the capabilities they would like to see in the next-generation navigation system

Queensland Warbirds on public display at Archerfield Sunday 6 May; information hotline (07) 3274 2639

News media reports indicate the 60 year old NZ air combat wing will be scrapped with all of its current A4 Skyhawk fighters to be retired in the not-to-distant future

Gyrocopter pilot Rob Henning, 49, was flying a friends machine near Tiaro, south of Maryborough on Sunday when he encounted a problem and hit a tree during an emergency descent

A pilot instructor and her male student undergoing training escaped unhurt after their twin engine light plane made an emergency landing in a paddock on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula on Sunday night