A skydive aircraft - believed by the News Desk to be a Cessna C 182  207 - with five persons on board experienced power loss on climb out at Coffs Harbour and was forced to land shortly after take-off



The Cessna ended up dislodging it's nose-wheel during the ensuring landing in what appears to be soft ground south of the main runway complex - all on board escaped serious injury

The ATSB has commenced an investigation into an aircraft accident involving a Cessna 172 that occurred about 110 km south of Broken Hill in NSW after it was reported missing on Monday

Search and rescue teams found the missing Cessna from Woolcunda Station this morning partially submerged in a lake - the pilot was the only person on board and his status is not yet known

The pilot was 57-year-old pastoralist Robert Seekamp whose body was recovered about 100 yards away from the submerged aircraft in the 'normally-dry' Lake Woolcunda

Robert was the President of the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling and was in the C-172 checking out water levels in the property's dams and bores

Clamback and Hennessy - Bankstown NSW - Supreme Court hearing countdown and the support shown by light aircraft operators and personnel within the support industry over the unsatisfactory ground lease renewal of a million dollar hangar

Yesterday at Bankstown well over 500 highly aviation-aware people showed up to support Ray Clamback and Aminta Hennessy in their unequal legal battle with Bankstown Airport Corporation over its “legalised confiscation” of their major asset