December 16  2007
A long-time Archerfield based charter company along with it's maintenance facility - JetCraft Aviation and Jetline Engineering - has been placed into Voluntary Administration by management

 
Reports have the recent grounding of it's Cessna 441 Conquests with more than 22,500 flying hours - and loss of a major client - as reasons behind the financial difficulties the company has encountered

Started by Randal McFarlane and Ian Foster in the late 80's - JetCraft initially operated out of building 15 (now occupied by Cirrus's Steve Malby) moving into their current premises during the late '90's

The maintenance facility was purchased in recent times from Peter Young who was trading as Flight Line Aviation P/L and operated out of the old Air Express/Hawker Pacific Hangar 6 (mouse over & click)

December 16  2007
A 60-year-old pilot and his 40-year old co-pilot had to be cut from their Cessna 150 after it crashed on a farm at Eneabba about 280 kilometres north of Perth

 
"The very early indication is that it was coming in to land (on a private airstrip) it may have hit power lines and the fuselage has been ripped in half"

December 19  2007
A Bankstown based light twin-engine aircraft - believed to be a Beech Duchess - has come to grief after the aircraft landed heavily during a pilot training exercise at Scone airport yesterday morning

 
Police media reports...
"We believe he may have hit the runway a little bit hard ...gone over the top of the shed ...and landed very heavily into the soil in a nearby paddock"