Archives 2006 Select Month below - Click and then Click again on Selected Month to View Weekly Record JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER January 1  Brisbane Skydiving Centre Accident at Willobank Claims 5 Lives  2 Survive after Modified Cessna C206 Ends Up Inverted in Dam  63 Percent of Aircraft Owners on OZ Register Yet to Abide by Part 47 of CASR's 2  OZ Air Tour Operator Ceases Operations after 12 Years of Air Safaris  Bureaucratic Indifference Closes Love-to-Fly-in-Light-Aircraft Business 3  Charter Aircraft Accident Claims Pilot and Passenger in NT  B58 Baron Impacts Ground Approaching McArthur River Mine  Correct Risk Management Exercised by VFR Pilot in Forced Landing on Beach  Overseas Reports Have OZe Pilots Up-In-Arms Over New Regulatory Security Checks 4  New Cessna Grand Caravan in Avoidable Mishap on Delivery Flight  It Took Only Seconds to Turn a New $2M Machine into a Used One  Rotary Wing Aircraft Accidents Claim One Pilot and Two Machines in OZ  US Military Loose F/A-18 Fighter Jet from Aircraft Carrier Off QLD Coast  Ex-Instructor Gets 2+ Years "In Custody" for Buzzing CBD High-Rise in Kiwi-Land February 1  Archerfield Airport Chamber of Commerce Invitation to Meeting  Direction of the GAAP Aviation Facility of Concern to Members  Rotary Wing Aircraft - The Most Dangerous Way to Fly in OZ 2  Steve Fossett Claims Record for Longest Distance Non-Stop Flight  Rutan Designed GlobalFlyer Completes One 'n Half Circumnavigation 3  Aerial Fire-Fighting Contractor Killed near Cootamundra in NSW  Professional Pilot Lost when Aircraft Impacts Ground During Turn 4  R44 Helicopter Hits Hill at Gunpowder in Western QLD - Four Lives Lost  West QLD High Temperature:Density Altitude Suspect for Loaded Robbo  QLD Central Coast May-Day - Victa Force Lands at Fitzroy River near Rockhampton March 1  Airspace Changes Impact Air Traffic Controllers and Management  Airservices Australia to Reduce ATC Workforce by 300 Personnel 2  Home-Built Fibreglass Aircraft Accident at Mildura Airport Claims Two  Glasair Owner-Builder-Pilot and Son in Unsuccessful Go-Around  OIC of Archerfield During 60/70's Final Farewell - Eric Felmingham's Departure 3  1986 Closed-Circuit Flight Distance Record Challenged  Fossett Claims New Record in GlobalFlyer Circumnavigation  Tropical Cyclone Creates Havoc in FNQ - Hangar at Innisfail Airport Destroyed  AirCentre Statistics - Damn Lies or Accurate Data - You be the Judge 4  Home-Built Lancair Pilot Sacrifices Own Life in Emergency Landing  Passing Storm Contributes to Loss of Control on Approach to Archerfield  Home-Built RotorWay Helicopter Accident Claims Life of Builder/Pilot  Power-Lines Claim Professional Crop-Duster Pilot in Morundah Accident April 1  AOPA President Killed in Home-Built Lancair Accident at Bankstown  Two Lancairs Now Lost along with Pilots in Recent Six Day Period  Bell 206 Helicopter Demolished after Power-Line Contact during Inspection 2  OZe F-111 Military Might for Easter Kiwi International Air-Show  Skydivers Display Extreme Skill in Exiting Twin-Engine Beech-18 3  Archerfield's Flying Fighters Hangar and Aircraft Seized by Federal Police  Australia's First Amateur Home-Built Jet - JG-2 - Takes to the Sky at Kingaroy  Kiwi Air-Show Crowd Dumbfounded after Aerobatic Display by Russian Female 4  In-Flight Breakup of Cessna Claims Life of Renowned USA Test Pilot  Scott Crossfield's C210A Falls from Sky after Entering Thunderstorm  Terry Mathews Grumman Tiger Prangs at Southport Flying Club Airstrip May 1  Dick Smith Gets Serious Over Non-Compliance of Government Policy  Threatens Airservices Australia with Legal Action Over NAS Roll-Back CASA Threatens Registration Cancellation of 17 QANTAS Passenger Jets 30's Vintage Ryan STM Extensively Damaged in Take-Off Accident at Caboolture 2  Private Control of Public Secondary Airports Leads to Demise - AOPA  Freehold Land on Gatton Air-Park West of Archerfield Aids Expansion S-E Cessna Stationair in Night Emergency Landing at Koah West of Cairns 3  Bungle Bungle - Kimberley Region's Naming Rights Challenged  OZ and Canadian Governments Absorb Millions in Two Bungles Lufthansa Embarrassment when B747 Nose-Leg Collapses at Frankfurt 4  Twin Diesel Diamond on World Promotional Flight Visits Archerfield  New Style Aircraft - New Type Jet-Fuel Powered Piston - New Cockpit Life Lost in Modern Greek Tragedy when Flying Machines Collide over Aegean Forced Landing by Ultralight into Ploughed Field near Howard Injures Two June 1  Unexploded WW2 German Bomb Unearthed at UK Building Site  Forces Closure of Nearby London City Airport and Rail Station Northern Territory's Bathurst Island Airstrip Claims Pilot and A36 Aircraft 2  Clamback and Hennessy Aircraft Ferry Team Members in 'The Drink'  Piper Twin-Engine Seminole Ditches - Pilots Rescued in Record Time Hail Storm Removes Radar Nose Cone from South Korean Airbus 3  Ottawa's Carp Airport Home-Built BD-5J Micro-Jet and Pilot Lost  Air-Show Rehearsal Claims Life of Aerobatic Sport Pilot in Canada 4  Aussie Designed and Built Aircraft Engines Popular Overseas  Home-Built Sport Aircraft Pilots Like 9 Cylinder Radials & Flat 8's July 1  A Decade On and Still More of the Same for Aussie Aviators  Issue One of the Aviation News Digest Revisited - July 1996 10 Years Later - CASA Grounds 160 Aircraft in June 2006 Five Escape Injury in Cessna C210 Landing Accident at Charleville 2  Overseas Airline Accidents in Pakistan and Russia Claim 167 Lives  Landing Airbus Runs Off Runway - Fokker F-27 Departure Disaster CASA Deregisters 500 OZ Aircraft - Several Historical Machines Included in List 3  OZ'e Aircraft Carrier Landing··No Ship··No Water··No Wheels  F-111C in Wheels-Up Landing at Amberley Military Air-Base Whitney Boomerang - OZ Designed Two Seat Training Aircraft takes to the Skies 4  Poles Locate Wartime Aircraft Carrier Wreck in Baltic Sea  Germany's Only Carrier - Graf Zeppelin - Positively Identified Oshkosh Reflections - Ethanol Powered RV's - Lancaster Bomber - Beech Mass Arrival August 1  Skydive Instructor Uses Own Body as Shield to Save Young Aussie  High Impact DHC-6 Twin-Otter Accident Claims 6 Jumpers - 2 Survive 2  Pilot Injured after Engine Fails in Cessna 182 Departing Archerfield  Home Owner Saves Pilot Seconds before Fire Fully Engulfs Machine  IFR Cessna 172 Forced to Land in Victorian High Country Due Wing Ice Holden Enters OZe Airship History with Largest Flying TV Screen in World 3  Lack of Government Interest Accelerates General Aviation's Decline  First Time in 66 Years OZ Aircraft Register Records Downturn  OZ Aeronautical Engineers Feel-the-Pinch as Flying Activity Flattens Out Traditional Ekka Show Week - Aircraft Visitor Parking at Archerfield 4  Flying and Building of Recreational Aircraft Under Pressure  Lockyer Valley Flying Club's Gatton College Airstrip to Close  Victorian Based Beech King Air C90 Nose-Wheel Collapse on Touchdown Heck Field Based Ultralight Lands in Cane Paddock after Engine Failure Crime Scene Established - Motorised Glider Impacts Ground Killing Father & Son September 1  West OZ Cattle Property's Cessna 172 Accident Claims Two  Pilot's Baby Daughter and Mount Vernon Station Hand Lost 2  Long Time Flying School at Archerfield Packs-Up and Leaves  Arena's 30 Year Main Terminal Building Area Occupation Ends 3  OZ News Media's Poor Reporting on Light Aircraft Incidents  Two New Types - Fixed-Wing Glider - Belt-Drive Light Aircraft 4  "Terrorist Type Act" Claims Classic Beech V-Tail in Bass Straight  Self-Annihilation Flight Destroys V35B Bonanza on Flinders Island  Executive Jet Collides with Boeing 737 over Amazon Jungle - 155 Persons Missing October 1  Tragic End to Military Style Adventure Joy-Flight in Strikemaster Jet  Birthday Present Flight Ends in Disaster for 50 Year-Old Passenger 2  Two Pilots Fail to Activate Aircraft Parachute in SR20 Cirrus  High-Rise Impact in Downtown New York City Claims 2 Lives  Holden Airship's Debut in Brisbane's Night Sky 3  Canadian Douglas A/B-26 Invader Warbird Enroute to Archerfield 4  Rotary Wing Machines Dominate Media with Accidents & Incidents  Chopper Crash in PNG Claims 4 - Military Machine in Out-Landing  New Pilot Training Model - Dual Pilots for All Airliners - No Flying of Aircraft Solo  Randal McFarlane's A-26 Invader Warbird Arrives at Archerfield November 1  Piper Navajo Impacts Hill at Raglan Claiming Lives of All 3 POB  Buying a Flying Job" Ends Tragically as Son is Lost in Training  "Rotary Wings Wreck Themselves Regularly - This Time it's a Bell 206 near Yamba  Float-Plane Impacts Gordon River Embankment in Tasmania's Wilderness Region 2  Six Escape From Light Twin Prang on Rottnest Island in WA  6-Seat Partenavia Ends up in Lagoon after Engine Failure & "Flying Undertaker" Warbird in a Wheel-Up Landing at Victoria's Point Cook 3  Ultralight Aircraft Prangs in OZ Claim Two Lives in Two Days  Powerlines Snare Two Machines in Country New South Wales  Father and Son Lost in Gliding Competition Accident in Kiwi Land 4  Yak 52 Warbird in Landing Mishap at Archerfield Airport  Instructor and Student Walk away from Runway Overshoot  Heck Airfield Based Ultralight Nose-Dives into Paddock - Pilot Sustains Minor Injuries  Maintenance Workshop at Archerfield to Close after 20 Years Operation December 1  Political Lobbying Saves Gatton College Airstrip from Closure 2  AT-802 Crop-Duster Accident Reported in OZ Media as Ultralight  Air Tractor 802 Turbine - World's Largest Single-Engine Aircraft 3  Engine Failure Demolishes Bellanca Super Viking in USA  Unlicenced Pilot in Unregistered Aircraft using Unapproved Fuel  Pilot's 30 Years Hard Work in Building Aircraft Destroyed on Maiden Flight 4  Flying Machines Continue to be Snared by Power-Lines  Vintage Auster Caught on Take-Off in Western Victoria  USA's Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Training Fleet Taken Out by Storm  Winch-Launch of Glider in Central West NSW Claims Pilot after Malfunction © AirCentre 1996 - Private Pilots are an Endangered Human Species in Australia from Lack of Support by Authorities   HOME