Archives 2003 December 1 Air Controllers Union Harass Politicians and News Media Civil Air President described as Scaremonger by Government Lindbergh Family 'Skeletons' - Courier Mail 'Letters to Editor' over Airspace 2 December 17 1903 - Kill Devil Hill 4 Miles South of Kitty Hawk First Fully Controlled Powered Flight Carried Out by Orville Wright RQAC Formation Flight over CBD to Celebrate Centenary of Flight Jon Johanson Stuck in Antarctica - Low Level Final Turn Claims 3 Lives in UK 3 Wright Brothers First Flight December 17, 1903 Commemorated Enactment of Flight Encounters Similar Problems 100 Years On RQAC Honour the Wright Bros - Church Takes Over Archerfield's Hangar 3 Jon Johanson Returns Home with South Pole Record Flight 4 Excellent Safety Record Established by Private Pilots in 2003 Great Year for Private Adventure Flights and VFR Flying in OZ B727 Captain Aborts Take-Off After V1 - Air Traffic Controllers Demise Heavy Pilot Caught Drinking on Job - PAC750XL Kiwi Ferry Pilot Lost in Pacific November 1 OZ is a Safe Place to Fly - In RPT and GA Aircraft ATSB Report Highlights Increasing Standards of Flying Safety New Airspace Changes Effective on November 27 - ATC May Strike 2 Fatal Accident with Pilot Training at Bankstown Airport Control Loss of Seneca Twin Conducting "Touch-and-Go's" Northern Territory Helicopter Fishing Expedition Disaster Claims 4 Lives 3 After 20+ Years of Debate - the End ..is Near - November 27 OZ Airspace to be Restructured based on Proven Concept Concern over Pilots and Planes Lost in Training Exercises 4 New National Airspace System Operational on November 27 Trouble Free Introduction Indicates Acceptance from all Aviators A300 Airliner Hit by Small Missile - New York Retirement Home for Concorde October 1 Adventure Holiday into Far North Queensland for Family Ends in Tragedy Piper Aztec Twin Departing Mareeba has Engine Failure and Claims 5 Lives Brazil Lightie Prang Claims Pollie - Robbo R-44 at Caboolture - Corby Starlet Lost in Victoria 2 North Stradbroke Island Dunwich Airstrip records First Fatality Ultralight Registered Skyfox Impacts Ground and Claims 2 Lives OZ'e Base Jumper Killed in Stunt involving the Royal Gorge Bridge in the USA It's Dangerous to Fly Low in Serbia (Yugoslavia) ...You could be Shot Down 3 Emergency Services Personnel Risk Life and Limb on Call-Outs Another Rescue Chopper Down in Central Queensland Sunshine Coast C182RG Classic Wheels-up - China Enters Manned Space Flight with Launch - No ATC Boundaries on Maps ...and No Horizon in NSW 4 Air Passengers no longer able to Fly Faster than a Speeding Bullet Concorde makes Last Flight from UK's Heathrow to New York's Kennedy Cessna C172 Lost in Bass Strait - Around-the-World Voyager to be Re-Born as a Jet - Serviceable X-Ansett B767 Scrapped for Parts Content September 1 The Proposed Bi-annual Archerfield Air Show off to a Good Start Ideal Weather Conditions Rare for Flying Displays at Archerfield Scare Tactics about Lighties - OZ Government Missile Fears - Flying Blind not always IFR 2 AirCentre Web Pages Generate Interest from around the Globe Latest Statistics indicate Wide Reader Base Microlight Prangs in WA and the NT - Another Qantas Emergency ..this time in Kiwi Land Saturday Afternoon Emergencies at Bankstown Airport 3 Military Aircraft Accidents Capture the World's Headlines Russian Tu-160 Blackjack and F-16 Fighting Falcon Lost Airbus Emergency at Sydney - Archerfield Based Cessna C150 Prang at Caloundra 4 OZ Airspace Reforms under Attack over Perceived Safety Issues Air Traffic Controllers Stirred-up with November Implication Million Dollar HARS Catalina Arrives in Darwin after Flight from Portugal August 1 Archerfield Gearing-up for Big Influx of Visitors Airport to Host Light Aircraft Air Show in September Hughes H-1 Replica Racer Lost along with Owner/Pilot - Qantas Boeing 737 Mayday at Darwin - Amazing "Flight" across Channel by Parachutist 2 A "Sting Operation" in USA Nets British Arms Dealer Supplying SAM's Plot to Bring Down a Commercial Jetliner Foiled by the FBI OZ Spy Plane Deployment to the Solomon Is - RNA Show Day for Brisbane and Aircraft Parking - Pilot Responses - Heavy & Light Aircraft in "Problem Solved" Situations - Two Aircraft Down in Flames - Twin in WA and Single in NSW 3 Light Aircraft Activity at OZe Secondary Airports Continues Down-Hill Archerfield Last for Movements - 20 Years Ago AF Competed for 2nd Place Qantas Mayday at Cairns - A330 Heavy Emulates Lightie - 180hp Victa Lost at Camden 4 Light Aircraft Enthusiasts BIG 3 Weeks Started by Watts Bridge Fly-In Upcoming Archerfield Airshow Squeezed by Fly-In at Warwick Airport Brazilian Rocket Explosion Kills 21 - DAME Doctor Fined for Cessna 402 Prang at Maroochydore - OZe Prime Minister OK'ed Cessna C172 Shoot-Down July 1 CASA Issues Urgent AD on Robinson R22 Helicopters Three R-22's with Blade Failures Prompt Urgent Action Qantas Emergency at Sydney - Two Lost and One Survive in Ultralight Accidents - Twin-engine Aerostar with Engine Failure on Take-off in South OZ 2 Two Valuable Historic Aircraft Lost attending Air Shows Heinkel HE-111 and Fairey Firefly Accidents claim 4 Lives 116 Lives Lost after Sudan B-737 impacts Hill - Tiger Moth takes Dip in Ocean - Murder Investigation in the UK after Parachute Sabotage 3 Serious Safety Allegations made against CASA and the ATSB TV's SBS Program Insight Castigates CASA/ATSB 12 USA Tourists Lost in Kenya - OZ'e B727 Freighter Company goes Bust - 2 Two-seaters Down in 2 Days in NSW; Pilots Uninjured 4 Old-timer Pilots Wary of Archerfield's "Grand Canyon" New Road Creates Anguish for Pilots on Departure and Approach CASA Board to be Restructured - 2 Seat Hawker Hunter Departs Archerfield June 1 Engine Failure in Lycoming Engine - Manufactures Scrutiny Kiwi PA-31 Chieftain Crash near Christchurch Claims 8 Lives Wheels-up Landing for PA-30 at Armidale - Microlight Accident at Tyagarah Airstrip Claims 2 Lives - In the USA an A-36 makes BIG Crater in Building 2 The OZ Prime Minister in Aircraft Unserviceability Incident New Jets encounter the same problems as the "old" Ones Another Ultralight Suspended from Power Lines in Country OZ 3 Fatal Three Days around Sydney for General Aviation Aircraft A Rotary Wing Accident Claims 2 Lives - Fixed Wing Four 4 $15 Million US Dollars Flutters down into Ocean NASA's Solar Powered Research Aircraft Falls Apart Impulse Airlines Boeing 717 on Short Final to Highway - Pilot Suspended May 1 Workshop Closure after 18 years of Operation Archerfield Aircraft Maintenance closes the Hangar Door New Flying School for Archerfield in "Gestation" Period 2 Only 20 Persons Survive High Altitude Decompression Russian Ilyushin 76 Transport Ramp Door Opens in Flight New Hangar Under Construction Collapses at Canberra Airport 3 Qantas Heavy in Aborted Landing at Brisbane Airport Bad Weather and Runway Work contribute to Landing Delay Pilot takes CASA to Court over Licence Cancellation - Fire Ant Eradication on AF 4 Archerfield Airport Owner Invests BIG DOLLARS in New Hangar State Government Supported QLD Rescue to get New Home Challenge by ACCC on OZ Airspace Controllers Proposal - NATO Yak-42 Down in Turkey Claiming 74 Lives - Grounded B727 Heavy Departs Illegally from Angola April 1 Archerfield based Beech Baron VH-KCN Sold Owner calls it a Day after more than 59 Years of Light Aircraft Flying Another Gyrocopter Crash Claims 2 Lives in South OZ 2 It Took 40 Years to Evolve - and Cost $1.2 Billion OZ Dollars Jindalee 'over the horizon' Defence Radar System now Operational USA's Meigs Field Destroyed by Chicago's Arrogant Mayor Richard Daley 3 The End of an Era of Supersonic Flight for Passengers Concorde to be Retired from Service later this Year Sky-diving Claims Two in central Victoria in a "Fun" Jump - Fixed-wing Light Aircraft Accidents lowest since record keeping began in 1938 4 New OZ Airpark for Light Aircraft Owners and Aviators Gatton Shire Council Approves Airpark to the West of Archerfield First Private Spacecraft Unveiled - Engine Seizure of PA-28R in Victoria - Brisbane International Expanding - KR-2 Ultralight Down - Nude Pilots Sacked March 1 Bad Weather Claims Ultralight Pilot Presses on Regardless and becomes a Statistic Bush Fires Claim another Aircraft - Airshows and Accidents - SAR-Time Cancellation Confusion - Concorde in Trouble (again) with Rudder Trim 2 Two Old Timers go "Belly-Up" with Administrators Appointed - Gwydir Air Charter at Moree and Mareeba's Robertson Aeroplane Company Indonesian Choppa falls into Pool - Boeing 737 Down in Algiers - Caboolture Tandem Parachute Emergency - Crop-duster Prang at Dalby 3 Tourist Skydiver Fatality at Jump Zone in West OZ - Boeing Heavy B747 'Bogged' at Melbourne Airport - French Mirage Fighters Mid-air at Reims claims Pilots 4 Civil Aviation Safety Authority Flying Operations Inspector Lost - Hero CASA Pilot Dies in Bell 47 Helicopter Accident at Caboolture Gyrocopter Holiday Tragedy, Pilot Lost - C172 Accident in Tassie Claims 4 Lives - Boomerangs Formation Flying (again) after 55 Years February 1 Air Safety Australia's Call to the Fax Brigade "You are not alone" Troops Rallyed in Support of Private Pilot over Licence Cancellation Nowra Cessna C152 Pilot Rescued - Conflicting Statistical Data on Passenger Aircraft Accidents - Piper Seneca 3 Nosewheel Collapse on Landing at Archerfield - News Desk Comment on Whyalla Piper Chieftain Accident in May 2000 2 Space Shuttle Columbia and Crew of 7 Lost During Re-entry 3 ATO Pilot Testing Officer Lost in Night Training Flight near Camden Three Helicopters Bite the Dust in OZ without Loss of Life 4 Cessna C210P Hi-jacked near Rockhampton lands Mackay Matt Denning's Boomerang Flies at Toowoomba after 60 years Super Air Bus Heavyweight at Brisbane - Concorde in Canadian Emergency - B1900 Heavy in Adelaide Emergency - Vickers Viscount Found after 27 Years January 1 Aviation News for Aviators, Pilots and Aircraft Owners The Beginnings of another New Year of Uncertainty Beyond the Limits of Drinking and of Flying - Russian Top Design Engineers Lost - The OZ'e Air Controllers Culture Club 2 Motor-Glider Terrifies Frankfurts CBD in Germany Air Toll for 2002 Lowest since 1947 Rockwell/Commander Light Aircraft Manufacturer to Close - Light Aircraft Transport -v- Road National Holiday Statistics 3 ACT Chief Minister in Icy Water of Bendora Dam Canberra Pollie assists in Rescue of Pilot in Downed Helicopter F28 Passenger Jet Lost in Peru with All 46 Persons on Board - 70 Passengers and 5 Crew Lost after Turkish RJ-100 Landed in Heavy Fog 4 New Piston Engine for GA that Operates on Jet Fuel Low Maintenance Turbocharged Diesel from Germany AT-6 Warbird and Kosciuszko Fire-fighter Forced Landings - Media Reports on WW11 Flight of 60 Years Ago - Unmanned World Balloon Flight - Virgin Blue Orders 50 Boeing 737's - Carrier Pilot in Landing Mishap - Ultralight Car Chaos © AirCentre 1996 - Private Pilots are an Endangered Human Species in Australia from Lack of Support by Authorities   HOME