February 7 
Sunland Aviation - now operating from Building 15 and under the ownership of Steve and Elizabeth Maltby - is in the process of setting up an aircraft maintenance workshop

Back in the '80's Hangar 15 was a thriving workshop employing 6 staff and servicing over 30 Archerfield based private aircraft

Then in the late '80's, Archerfield was sold to a Government backed corporation (FAC) and most of the privately owned aircraft serviced by hangar 15 left the airfield due to excessive charges (on aircraft) imposed by the new regime that eventually forced the workshop to close

 February 3 
A 60-year-old pilot was found by his family fatally injured in his crashed light aircraft when overdue returning from a night flight at The Rock, south of Wagga Wagga in NSW

 February 5 
A Piper Cherokee-Six with a full load of tourists on board failed to become airborne during take-off at the Airlie Beach airstrip in the Whitsundays

The aircraft ran off the end of the runway and with the pilot using maximum braking the disk brakes overheated allowing grass in contact with the wheels to catch fire - there were no reported injuries

 February 7 
Qantas is to close its routes to India from the end of next month compounding the cut backs made to flights to Rome, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Manila and Buenos Aires recently


The OZ "Flying Kangaroo" airline has also decided to defer the delivery of three Airbus A330 aircraft that were due to be delivered in mid-2003