February 22 
Organisers of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, due to begin in QLD's Coolum area from 2-5 March 2002, are to establish a security base on the airfield

There is expected to be increased airfield activity shortly with security a major issue

The News Desk has been informed that a P40 Warbird is nearing flying status at Coolangatta airport and should be "go" when the paperwork is completed

 February 16 
Media reports have two Qantas jumbo jets with nearly 800 POB only 38 seconds from a major disaster over a remote part of the Pacific Ocean

Qantas B747-400's - QF25 AKL-LAX and QF26 LAX-AKL - were allocated FL330 by controllers ...but were "HEAD-ON"

The TCAS collision warning alert sounded on both aircraft with one diving and the other climbing to miss each other by 1000ft

 February 16 
A DH-82a Tiger Moth aircraft is reported as crashing into heavy scrubland 1km south-west of the Williamtown military airfield at about 1530 hrs local with loss of the two persons on board

 February 14 
A 58-year-old local Goondiwindi farmer and pilot of an exclusive Storch ultra-light aircraft received fatal injuries and his passenger seriously injured when the aircraft crashed on Kalanga Station

The Ultra-light Federation of Australia executive director Paul Middleton is reported in the local media as saying that the OZ designed and manufactured aircraft was a $100,000 state-of-the-art factory machine