SEARCH FACILITY Headlines for Years 1996 - 2006 2006      -      Use your Browser's "Edit / Find" and Enter the Search Specifics 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 Fleet Taken Out by Storm  Winch-Launch of Glider in Central West NSW Claims Pilot after Malfunction 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 Bell 206 at Yamba  Float-Plane Impacts Gordon River Embankment in Tasmania's Wilderness 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 Injuries  Maintenance Workshop at Archerfield to Close after 20 Years Operation 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 Airliners - No Flying Aircraft Solo  Randal McFarlane's A-26 Invader Warbird Arrives at Archerfield 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 & Boeing 737 Collide over Amazon Jungle - 155 Persons Missing 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2005 December 1  Extreme Weather Conditions Claim Piper Chieftain and Four Lives  In-Flight Break-Up Kills OZ's Top Landholder and Cattle Producer 99 Passengers on Virgin B737 Involved in Emergency Descent from 34,000 OZ Professional Pilots in 70 Fatal's - Private Pilots 9 - Same Time Period OZ Designed Cobra Arrow Home-Built Pilot Lucky when Machine Engulfed in Flames 2  Rotary Wing Machines Involved in Two Accidents in Far North QLD  One in Western QLD Claims Pilot after Wire Strike during Mustering Experienced High Time Gyrocopter Pilot Lost near Charleville Mustering Goats 3  8-Seat Airvan Tossed against Hangar Door during Sunshine Coast Storm  Home-Built Glider & Pilot Lost carrying out Low-Level Turn at Caboolture USA In-Flight Break-Up - Wing Separates from Grumman Mallard Killing 20 POB 4  CASA Challenge Dick Smith's Report Over Increase in Accidents  Statistics Show Decline in Fatal Accidents Over Last 15 Years Rotary-Wing Aircraft Continue to Crash - R44 Robbo Down at at Theodore Pilot Escapes Unharmed after C182 Ditches off Victoria's Whites Beach November 1  Australia's Only Flying 2-Seat Hawker Hunter Lands with Mains Retracted 2  Flying Double-Decker Bus Arrives for Qantas Anniversary Celebrations  Radial Engine Operating Expertise Maintained by Dedicated Enthusiasts 3  Recent Home-Built Fatal Accident Indicates In-Flight Structual Failure  Fracture of Port Wing Attach Web Evident During Post-Crash Inspection  Working Holiday Flying the Globe - Kiwi Boss in Qantas Emergency 4  Recent Controlled Flight into Terrain Accidents Claim 24 Lives in OZ  Controller's Console Alarms Activated - Radar Advisory's NOT ISSUED  Military Pilots Need More Training on How-to-Land Light Aircraft October 1  Helicopter Blade Strikes Senior Flying Instructor at Maroochydore  High Time Experienced Pilots Involved in Three Flying Accidents  Mature Age Pilots in Two Accidents in Central West - 66 and 69 Year-Olds 2  Boonah Ultralight Emergency Procedure Practice Turns Genuine  Pilot Training Instructor and Student Injured in Heavy Landing  OZ Home-Builder Jon Johanson Receives FAI Gold Medal Award for 47 World Records 3  Proposed Master Plan for Archerfield Undergoing Stringent Analysis  Environment Planning University Students to Submit New Proposal 4  Boeing B737 Passenger Jets Around World Continue to Crash  This Time It's Nigeria - All Passengers and Crew Lost on Impact  Light Aircraft Accidents Claim 4 Lives - One in Crop-Duster - 3 in Ultralights  How Not to Do IT! - OZ News Media Enthralled with On-Road Take-Off Mishap  "Mature Age Pilots" Living Longer - More Daring - "Old Bold" Pilots Live On September 1 B737 Passenger Jet Down Yet Again - Indonesia - 149 Lives Lost Aerobatic CAP 232 Aircraft Grounded after Loss of French Military Pilot 2 Professional Pilot Lost in Home-Built Accident near Inglewood Indications of Engine Failure and Unsuccessful Forced Landing Light Aircraft Prangs - Bankstown - Jandakot - The Kimberley and Kununurra Kiwi's Sell Entire Air Force Combat Wing of 34 Aircraft to Private USA Buyer 3 Kiwi Pilot Alarms Auckland's Populace on Election Night Flying Instructor in Piper Cherokee Threatens Sky-Tower 4 "It could only happen in America" - Live 'Entertainment' as You Crash Passengers on Disabled Jet Watched Live TV as Airbus Crash-Lands Mature Age Couple Lost in Beech A36 Accident Near Tenterfield August 1 Hangar Dismantled at Archerfield after Ground Lease Expires Owners Choose to Leave Airport after 30+ Years Occupation Fire Engulfs Airbus A340 - Lands Long During Storm in Canada and Runs Out of Runway 2 Airport Master Plan Views Archerfield as Industrial Park Aviation Based Industry to Get-the-Boot from the Airfield 3 Two Passenger Jet Accidents in Two Days Claim 281 Persons Boeing B-737 Down near Athens Greece - MD-82 in Venezuela Brisbane Show Week Attracts Light Aircraft from the West to Archerfield 4 Another Passenger Jet Down - This Time in Peru - 40 Lives Lost OZ Registered Nanchang CJ-6A and Pilot Lost in Aerobatic Training July 1 Vickers Vimy Bomber Replica Re-Enactment of 1919 Atlantic Flight Pioneer Pilots Alcock and Brown's Crossing 86 Years Ago Remembered 2 Aircraft Maintenance Workshops Around OZ Struggle to Meet Costs Paint Shop at Archerfield Latest Victim of Decline in Flying Activity Chartered Piper Chieftain and 3 POB Lost in Victoria's High Country during Snow Storm 3 Tourist Cessna C210 Force-Lands on Remote West OZ Station Perth Family on Joy-Flight over Kimberley Area Escape Unharmed Darling Downs Soaring Club Glider Pilot Lost in Out-Field Landing Accident 4 Archerfield Airport "Master Plan" Under Attack by Local Aviators Pilots Gain Prime-Time News Coverage over Non-Aviation Plans German Untralight Pilot Suicides in Spectacular Fashion on Reichstag Lawn in Berlin June 1 Jet Fuel Powered New Technology Light Aircraft Piston Engines Advance Low Maintenance "Compression-Ignition" Replacing "Spark-Ignition" 2 Pilot Flying Training Costs in OZ Twice as Expensive as in USA High Cost Attributed to OZ Air Services Monopoly with "User Pays" 3 It Pays to have Two of Everything when Flying - "Just-in-Case" Two Pilots - Two Engines - Two Fuel Tanks and Two Handy Airports Cirrus Takes Over Lead in Light Aircraft Sales - 2,000th Aircraft Delivered in USA 4 World Record Claim for Issue of Single-Engine Maintenance Release Late Model Cessna C208 Turbine Owner Charged $78,900 for Service Cessna C182 Light Aircraft Accident in USA Claims Two Aussies - One of the World's Richest Men Killed in Home-Built Ultralight Accident - Coolangatta Airport Flooded after Torrential Winter Rain - Murphy's Law Applied to the Word 'DUCK' when Performing Aerobatics May 1 Queenslanders Honour Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen in State Funeral Kiwi Fairchild Metroliner 111 Freighter Lost in Unusual Circumstances in NZ 2 RPT Fairchild Metroliner Impacts 1500' Hill on Approach to Iron Range in FNQ All 15 Passengers and Crew onboard the Aero-Tropics 19-seat Prop-Jet Killed 3 7KCAB Citabria Engulfed in Flames after apparent Forced Landing in South OZ Mature Age Pilot and Young Passenger unable to Escape Ensuring Inferno 4 Airport Luggage Checks in OZ not as Competent as in Bali Indonesia Recent Court Case Highlights Poor Training and Suspect Equipment  Archerfield's Warbirds Museum Founder Forced Return to OZ "Health and Holiday" Resort April 1 Aussie Defence Force Sea-King Helicopter Lost in Humanitarian Action Accident Claims 9 ADF Members - 2 Survive on Earthquake Hit Nias Island 2 Kiwi Prime Minister Involved in Light Aircraft In-Flight Emergency Entry Door Opens at 8000 feet - Pilot Issues Mayday - Lands Successfully 3 Gympie Glider Accident Claims Life of Pilot's Sister During Joy-Flight South OZ has Cessna Retractable Belly-Landing During Take-Off 4 Cessna C150 Aerobat and Pilot Lost in Victoria Private Simulator takes-over Private Flying Role - Netherlands 9/13 PC's March 1 The Burt Rutan Designed GlobalFlyer Succeeds on First Attempt Adventurer Steve Fossett Claims Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation Record High Profile Military Trained Chief Flying Instructor Ends up Inverted in Perth Front Yard 2 Italian Air Traffic Controllers in Spotlight over Fatal Runway Accident Milan Court Sends 4 Controllers to Jail for Involvement that Killed 118 Cessna C310 Accident at Tamworth Claims One Life - Archerfield 's DC-4 For Sale (again) 3 Australian International Airshow at Avalon in Victoria Captures Media Interest Wide Coverage Commits Government to Supporting the Airshow up to 2015 Russian An-24 Airliner Down in Flames with a Loss of 28 Lives - 24 Survive 4 Collision of Sailplanes in Same Thermal Claims One Life near Benalla One Gliding Club of Victoria Member able to Parachute to Safety First Commercial Aircraft Certified to Operate on Ethanol made from Sugar Cane February 1 Heavy Accident Claims 104 Lives Overseas - Light Aircraft in NZ 3 Lives Afghan B737 and Piper Seneca Disoriented in Bad Weather Approaches Biz-Jet Aborts Take-Off in USA & Prangs - OZ Controlled Airspace Considered Complicated - Brisbane Flying Group Swaps Operations From Sunland to Flight Training Australia 2 Light Aircraft Security of Concern to OZ Authorities Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 Effective March 2005 All Unattended Light Aircraft to be Secured against Unlawful Interference 3 Archerfield Flying Training Operators to be Guided by Marketing Specialist Promotional Business Management Attracted by Decline in Flying Activity USA Airline Pilots New Job as Sheriff - Civil Air Controllers Union Targeted by Pilot - Training Prangs Continue to Create Jobs for Workshops - Caloundra DH-82A Prop-Strike 4 The Last Great Aviation Adventure about to Get Under-Way USA's Steve Fossett Wants the Solo Non-Stop Around World Record January 1 2004 - The Safest Year Ever Recorded for Flying Machines Years 2003 - 2002 - 2001 Recorded Similar Results for Fixed-Wing Aircraft CASA Want Tamper-Proof Recorders for Choppers - Phantom Cow Takes On Landing B737 - QLD Rescue Helicopters Poor Accident Record 2 Advanced Pilot Training Keeps Repair Workshops Busy in Victoria RVAC's Twin-Engine Baron in Classic "Touch-and-Go" Wheels-Up Crop-Duster Pilot Lost at Dirranbandi - UK's EasyJet Suspends Drunk Pilot - Italians Want to Jail 36 Air Traffic Controllers for Defrauding the State 3 Two RAAF PC-9 Roulette Aircraft in Mid-Air Collision near East Sale One Pilot Ejects - The Other Lands back at the RAAF Air Base Safely Airbus Industries Launch New 800 Seat A380 "Super Double-Decker Jumbo" Airliner 4 Brisbane International Airport Closed to Large Heavies for 3 Hours Boeing B727 Freighter Stuck in Boggy Ground alongside Main Runway USA's Steve Fossett Prepares for Around-the-World Solo Non-Stop Record 2004 December 1 Corporate Jet Charter Owner and Chief Pilot in Legal Wrangle Expensive Citation Jet Impounded by Papua New Guinea Authorities Media Fascination Over Freight Aircraft Ditching - Solo Non-Stop Around Globe 2 Family Outing Flying Kites Turns Tragic at Lahore in Pakistan Recent Annual Kite Flying Festival Claim 7 Lives - Total 20 for Year Cherokee Six Lands Short of Runway at Parafield in South OZ - No Serious Injuries 3 Controllers Win Tender for Management of USA Style Control Tower Airspace Expertise Exported at Expense of Aircraft Owners & Pilots Another Fire-Ant Bell 47 Down at Purga - 2 Escape Ultralight Prang at Collinsville World's Most Expensive Jet Fighter Ends Up in a Ball-of-Flame on Take-Off 4 OZ Authorities Confirm Light Aircraft Fatal Accidents Improvement Fatal Accidents and Private Flying Continue to Fall from 1980's Peak New Year Expectations - Global Non-Stop Solo Flight - Ligeti Stratos to Fly Again November 1 Government Dupes VFR Pilots Over New Airspace Arrangements Airservices Planned Changes to Go Ahead Despite Political Promises Avro Vulcan 'V' Bomber For-Sale - Maverick Chopper Crew at Gold Coast - "If You Fly a Retractable U/C Aircraft" - Qantas Jet Brake Failure at Isa 2 Drama Continues Over Changes to VFR Flight in Controlled Areas Private Pilot Groups Highlight Poor Airspace Design by Airservices Ultralight Pilot Fails in Conviction Appeal - First OZ Pilot Jailed for Buzzing House - Two Pilots Survive Accidents - Cropduster at Laidley :: Ultralight at Roma 3 OZ Airspace Procedures set to Return to be "Uniquely Australian" Dick Smith Fails in Bid to Upgrade OZ Airspace to World Standards Crosswind Landing Claims PA-28R in NSW - VFR Aircraft and 'Airways Clearance' 4 OZ Controlled Airspace Increased Despite Lack of Radar Control Amended NAS Implemented by Airservices after CASA Approval Airservices Boss Smith Resigns - Dick Smith Defeated by Airservices - Airspace Directorate Mooted 2002 - Ultralight Accident Claims Father/Son - ATSB Report #2 on Benalla Accident - Locust Control Helicopter Claims 2 - GIII Executive Jet Claims 3 - Co-Pilot Takes On Captain's Job - Passenger Takes On Co-Pilot's Job October 1 Aviation "ON SHOW" - Rutan's Team Take Out Space X-Prize Aussie Ferry Pilot Rescued from Middle of Pacific Ocean Tourists on Joy-Flight Swim to Safety after Floatplane Force Lands at Gold Coast - Amberley Military Air Base Air-Show - Performer Fatality USA Air-Show 2 Personal Emergency Locater Transmitter Saves Two Lives Couple on Flying Holiday in Ultralight Rescued from Desert Archerfield in Bush Fire Emergency - Outback Gyrocopter Prang Claims Pilot 3 A Current Affair TV Report Exposes Deficiency in OZ Airspace Air Traffic Controllers Suspended over Benalla Prop-Jet Accident OZ Government Anti-Theft Measures - B747 Freighter Down in Canada - Ferry Pilot Back Home - Medical Condition Claims Pilot - Stolen Aircraft Embarrass the French 4 Dick Smith Drops Airservices Court Action over Changes to NAS Airservices in "Hot Seat" - Government on Record to Implement NAS OZ Citation Jet Impounded by PNG's CAA - LOST in FLIGHT One B747 Jet ENGINE September 1 GPS Position Error in Benalla Piper Cheyenne Accident Corporate Prop-Jet on Approach with False Lat.Long Entered The Latest in Jet-Powered "Go Fly Yourself" Flying Machines 2 New OZ Airspace Model Sabotaged by Self-Interest Parties NAS Airspace Reform Forced Back to Pre-November 2003 Status Media Alert for King-Air Passenger Door - Legendary Station Owner Lost in R44 3 Dick Smith Takes-On Airservices in Federal Court Action "Not Happy" with Authorities Returning to Previous System USA F/A-18 Hornet Lost at Tindal - King-Air Passenger Door Recovered 4 "If You Have the Money - We will get You There" Flight into Space Conceivable - Cost Only About $250,000 (US) Scare in Qantas Flight near Canberra - Jittery Baggage Handlers at Sydney Undercarriage Failures Expensive - Norwegian Pilots Attacked with Axe Modern Ford Tri-Motor Replica Prang - Pictorial History Archerfield's Hangar 3 August 1 Regulator Enforcers Create Crash Repair Work Downturn in Accident Repair Work at Archerfield Reversed PA-34 Undergoing Pilot Refresher Flying Damaged but Flown Back to Archerfield 2 Downturn in Private Flying in OZ Evident at Archerfield Lack of "Bush" Pilots and Cessna's for RNA Public Show Day PA-31 Chieftain Lands on Darwin Beach - USA's 52nd Oshkosh Air Show Stats - Silvester's Cousin Creates Chaos on Flight Deck of Passenger Jet 3 Mooney Lost at Sea after Night Flight from Cobar to Caloundra Low-Level Over-fly and Pull-up May Have Contributed to Accident Body of the Pilot & Aircraft Remains Recovered from Sea Bed 3 Days Later 4 Terrorism Brings Down Two Russian Passenger Jets Tu-134 and Tu-154 Airliners Bombed by Female Passengers Swiss Cessna 421 Fatality in WA - Olympic Athletes in Flight Drama - Military Jet Takes Out Ultralight - Gatton Ultralight Prang July 1 Private Flying in Light Aircraft the Safest Method of Travel It's So Safe that Job Loses are Now a Real Possibility Lack of Light Aircraft Crashes Creates Concern for All in Support Industries 2 Airline Pilots Sacked in USA for "Drinking and Flying" Indicted by Grand Jury on Federal Charge - 15 Years Jail IF Guilty "INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK" 3 Qantas Jetstar Passengers Upset by Low-Level Manoeuvre Jet Departing Hamilton Island Turns to Avoid Incoming Qantas Traffic Prang Round-up --- Katoomba - 3 Injured --- Archerfield Baron - Mt Hagen PNG - Veteran WW2 P-51D Mustang Damaged in the UK 4 Two Corporate Aircraft Lost - Cheyenne Prop-Jet and Augusta Helicopter Piper Cheyenne Accident Claims 6 Lives in Victoria - Helicopter Prang Ř Helicopter Lost in Brisbane River - Twin Otter Freighter Lost in PNG Jungle - PA-32 Stolen from St George in QLD - Ultralight Claims 1 Rotary Wing Ř - The Debate:- Are Twins Safer than Single Engine Aircraft? :: You be the Judge June 1 Supreme Court Issues Judgement Over Sub-Lease of Hangar Timely Action by Owner Avoids Complete Loss of Ownership Melksham-V-Archerfield Airport - Airport Security Breached by Graffiti Attack - Private Cessna C206 Down at Laguna Keys Proserpine 2 RAAF Sell Off British Aerospace/Hawker Siddeley HS748 Fleet Five Twin Engine Prop-jets and Spares For-Sale by Tender HS748 Down in Libreville Africa - 'Heavy' Runs Off Runway on Landing in USA 3 After a Decade of Waiting a War Establishes a Need Seabird Aviation Seeker Reconnaissance Aircraft Sale Cessna C150 Take-Off Drama at Gladstone - Smoking RAAF Hercules Emergency - Two OZe Skydivers Lost in Indonesia 4 SpaceShipOne Space Flight Piloted by Mike Melvill Successful World's First 'Private Astronaut' Created for the Record Books Hangar Builder Steve Hart Jailed - Homebuilt F9F Panther Jet Fighter Replica May 1 News Helicopter in the USA Looses Control after Tail Rotor Failure Amazing Escape for Three Crew Members on Board Media 'Eyes' Catch Skyfox Flying Under Bridge - Professional Airshow Pilot Lost in USA - OZ Mid-Air Statistics Over the Last 42 Years - Safer Flying than Marriage for QLD Females 2 ATR-72 Wrecked on Landing at Puerto Rico in The Bahamas Heavy Landing in 70 Seat Prop-Jet Injured Passengers and Crew Archerfield and Holly Star in TV Advertisement - Ag-Cat Stolen from Station Property in SW QLD - PA-32R Aborts Take-Off at Winton and Hits Fence 3 Private Flight into Space Draws Closer with Test Flight Rutan Designed Melvill Piloted SpaceShipOne Enters Near-Space New Home for OZe WW2 Hudson - Caboolture Air-Show Report - Three New Cirrus Aircraft Arrive at Archerfield 4 Sojourn in Space a Real Possibility for Adventure Seekers World's First Commercial Spaceport Awaits Operating Licence News Media "Excited" over Light Aircraft Accident - Heavy in Tail-Heavy Incident - LYC-540 That's Not a Lycoming - Helicopter Accident Claims Life Central OZ April 1 It Only Takes Time and Money - for WW2 Fighter "New" Russian Yak-9's First Flight at Archerfield Shopping Centre Youth a Menace to Jets - Fire-Ant Bating Bell-47 Down in Canal - Gyrocopter Disintegrates in Flight near Esk 2 Concept of an Aircraft with Emergency Parachute Successful Two Cirrus Aircraft Deploy their 'Chutes Saving 5 Lives Buzzing X-Wife in Ultralight Lands Pilot/Instructor in Jail - Private Space Trip Moves Closer with Test Flight - GCA Military Radar at Archerfield - Homebuilt Aircraft Chinese Style Attracts Media - March Viewer Statistics 3 Hangar Owners at Archerfield Unable to Change Lease Airport Operator Creating Drama for Aircraft Servicing More Drama With Undercarriages Elsewhere - OZ Air Controllers Lack Education on USA Airspace Model - Free-falling Skydiver Ends Up Inside Aircraft 4 ATSB Report on Virgin Jet and Light Aircraft Challenged Dick Smith Finds "No Fault" Unacceptable on TCAS Activation UK Gyrocopter Pilot in Solo World Flight Attempt - German Military Tornado's Collide Claiming Two Lives - Boeing 727 Used in 'Mile Zero High Club' --- Late Breaking News --- OZ New Airspace Reform to Continue March 1 The Age of Private Pilots and Aircraft in Oz Increasing Oldies in 'Vintage' Aircraft Escape Injury after Engine Failure Power-lines in Texas USA Snare Stolen Cessna C172 Flying in Fog 2 Erratic Flying Style Lands Boeing B737 Pilot with Hefty Fine Captain Found Drunk at the Wheel after Passengers Complain Lightweight Aircraft involved in Accidents Continue to Claim Lives - Ultralight used for Business in Far North QLD - Female Glider Pilot in Victoria 3 OZ Regulators Considering Testing Pilots for Drugs & Alcohol Alcohol-Drug Mix may have Contributed to Fatal Accident Rare Fouga CM170 Magister Jet Trainer Warbird Lost in Kiwi Land 4 Hypersonic Flight Moves Closer to Becoming a Reality NASA's X-43A Scramjet Reaches Mach 7 in Test Flight Fire Engulfs F/A-18 on Take-Off in USA - Fire Emergency at Archerfield - Movie STARS - The DC4 and Holly Valance February 1 Pilot Training Accidents Replace Private Flying as High Risk The Perils Associated with the Training of Pilots in OZ Increase 'Heavy' Entertainment at the Expense of Others - Successful Ejection 8/10ths of a Second Before Impact - OZ Military Orders Global-Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2 Power Lines Bring Down Piper Cherokee on Adventure Flight Four Lives Needlessly Lost by Unmarked Lines Spanning Lake Fokker 50 Crash Claims 44 Lives in Middle East - Black Hawk Helicopter Down South West of AF - R22 Helicopter Down on Bribie Island - Cessna C208 Float Plane Landing Mishap in FNQ - News Desk Communiquč on News Flash Issues 3 Amendments for New Airspace Procedures to be Implemented Airservices Back-Flip on the Manning of Control Towers Chuck Yeager's Sound Barrier Blast from the Past - Ultralights/Hang-gliding Accidents Claim Three Lives - Female Pilot and Aero Commander Lost in Tassie 4 Family Man Takes Revenge over Loss of Wife and Children Air-Controller Slain over Error that caused Midair Collision Ultra-light Accident Claims Another Life - OZe Chopper Pilot Killed in Afghanistan - Macedonian President Killed in Beech 200 Accident in Bosnia January 1 Passenger Jets Overseas have Bad Week with Accidents 148 Lives Lost in B737 Charter and Fokker 70 Lands in Paddock Electrical Fire Consumes Citabria at Camden - Bad Times for Kiwi Built Aircraft - Light Aircraft Fatalities in OZ -v- Road Toll Over National Holiday Period 2 OZ Air Traffic Controllers Union Not Happy With New System "Transponders ON in Light Aircraft Increases Air Safety For All" Fog Claims 37 Lives in Yak-40 in Uzbekistan - Air Leak Found on Space Station - Steve Fossett Plans Solo 3 Day Non-Stop Circumnavigation of Globe 3 A300 Airbus Freighter Jet Controlled by Engines Only Emergency Landing in Baghdad Brings Out The Best in DHL Pilots FNQ Ground Effect "Air-Craft" Company in Liquidation - Auction in Cairns 4 Hazardous Occupation with Training of Pilots in OZ Multi-engine Endorsement Error Claims Instructor and Pilot Undercarriage Collapses in Retractable Aircraft at Bankstown and Essendon 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 - Kiwi Ferry Pilot in PAC750XL 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 Caloundra Prang 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 and Light Aircraft in "Problem Solved" Situations - Two Light Aircraft Down in Flames - Twin-Engine in WA and a 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 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 Keith Carmody 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 B747 'Bogged' at Melbourne - French Mirage Fighters Mid-air at Reims 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  2002 December 1 Aviation Comments by Law Representatives not always Correct QLD Coroner behind Times Qantas 3rd Warning on Fuel Pumps from Boeing 2 OZ Government Issues Terrorist Warning to General Aviation Compulsory Photo Identification on all Pilot Licences Young Stowaways from Ghana Loose Their Life - Air Canada Jumbo Jet Stuck in Heathrow Mud - Concorde Rudder Trim Problem - Twin Engine Passenger Jets Terrorist Targets - Light Twin in Night Time Gear up Crash Landing at Bankstown 3 The Transport Safety Investigation Bill Last Minute Reprieve before Law Ariane-5 Rocket Launch Failure - Kiwi Carrier Engine Failure Departing Brisbane - Local Simulator Centres in Brisbane for Heavies and Lighties 4 Danger Airborne as well as Ground Bound with National Holiday Period in Full Swing Bad Start for OZ Holidays; C150 Lost with 2 POB - Go-around Ends in Disaster - Qantas Last Flight Drama - Eight Lost in Britten Norman Islander Accident - Nomad Accident in Philippines Claims One - Air Traffic Control Italian Style November 1 Skydive Cessna C206 Hits Fish Shop in Victoria - Qantas B747 Jet for Longreach Outback Museum Military Training Claims another Pilot - Palm Springs USA Parade of Planes - WW2 P-38 Airborne 60 Years On - Brave Qantas Flight Attendant - Salvo Hands In Pilot Licence - Archerfield's DC4 Progress 2 Passenger Aircraft Accident in Germany Claims 20 Lives Fokker F-50 Hits Ground on Approach in Fog The $7500 Qantas Pillow "Bomb" - OZ Alpines' Claim Ultralight - Military Training Claims Two Pilots and Two MiG-29's 3 Surfing Holiday to the Philippines Ends in Disaster for 6 Aussies Fokker F27 Departing Manila Claims 19 Lives after Ditching in Sea Bad Week for Qantas and Virgin Blue - each have an On-board Bomb Scare 4 Major Changes to OZ Government Air Regulators Pending CASA Management to be Re-structured by July 2003 - Military - Homebuilt - Lightie:- Aircraft making News from around OZ - AirCentre Web Page Statistics Indicate High Interest from around the World October 1 Whitsunday's Hamilton Island Tourist Fatality Six lost in PA-32 in what may be a LLTurn G-pull Accident Boeing Extends Fuel Pump AD - Kiwi B747 in trouble AGAIN - AusSAR: Just Reporting the Facts as stated by Whyalla Airlines 2 Media Claims of Dangerous Skies in OZ for Light Aircraft Local Newspaper "Consults" with Aviation Experts Ballina Council looking for Operator - Airshow Accident in India Claims 15 - Cirrus Aircraft Parachute Saves Pilot in USA after Aileron falls off SR22 3 Low OZ Dollar Attracts Overseas Aircraft Buyers Another Low Time Aircraft Departs OZ OZ Aviation News Round-up - Cessna Accident at Bungendore - Ultralight Pilots in Record Breaking Flight around OZ 4 Military Strike Fighter Training Claims 4 in USA Two F/A-18's Super Hornets Collide over Sea Non-Manned Russian Soyuz Rocket Explodes during Lift-Off September 1 OZ Air Traffic Controllers Strike is OFF Virgin takes on Sydney Airport over X-Ansett Terminal WA SkyWest Fokker Emergency - USA's Aviator Julie Clark - Regional REX in Holiday Mood -Twin Otter Down in Nepal 2 September 11 2001 Remembered Sailplane Drops in on UK Royals - Bad Weather Claims 2 in USA - Flap Bits Fall Off Kiwi B747 - Embraer Brasilia Down in Brazil - Boeing Fuel Pump Warning - OZ Kissing Cousins 3 Aircraft Fire injures 2 - Redcliffe C320 Twin Hits Levee Bank Qantas and Virgin Blue Aircraft Grounded Eclipse 500; 70's Learjet Reborn - Birdsville Races Aircraft - Hangars for Sale in SE QLD - Bill Whitney's Home Builders Workshop 4 General Aviation Working in USA - AOPA in US gives Strong Support to GA P-51D Racer "Miss America" Engine Failure - Cirrus @ Archerfield in News - Is it to be a TAFE Diploma or University Degree or Both for Budding Pilots August 1 QLD University HyShot Scramjet Test Launch Successful Sukhoi-27 Error at Military Air Show Claims 83 Lives Moorabbin Nite Training Error Claims Female Pilot - Another Wing Failure in US Fire Fighter - ATSB Transport Mode Study - Rocket Powered Long-EZ Space Flight Test - Russian Heavy Down in Moscow - AF News Corral 'Round-up' 2 New Regional Airline Operators for OZ Alliance takes over Flight West - REX takes over Hazelton/Kendell UK Holiday Destination Sydney (?) - Heavy Pilots 'Under the Influence' - GR7 Harrier Air Show Prang - Aviation Leaders at AF Luncheon Function 3 Air Traffic Controllers Comment on September 11 British Airways B747 May-Day at Sydney New Regional REX in Emergency - Ekka Time at Archerfield 4 CASA Airworthiness Directive Grounds 40+ Aircraft in OZ Piston Engine Manufacturer Lycoming in Trouble with SB-552 US Airman Sues Movie Industry - Airbus A340 Takes Off on a Taxiway - Russian Mi-26 Military Helicopter Attacked by Hand-Held Missile July 1 OZ Government Commits to USA's X-35 Fighter OZ's Military F-111 Fleet Grounded - Again Solo Balloon Circumnavigation "On Target" at 75% of Flight - Woomera Launch for Japan's Supersonic Model Test - Greek F-4 Phantom Lost - Smoker Creates Emergency in UK 2 Tu-154 Jet and Boeing 757 Freighter Collide over Germany Steve Fossett Completes Solo Circumnavigation of Globe Fossett Lands in Outback QLD - OZ Rotarians Group Tragedy - USA V35 Bonanza Group Outing Tragedy - British Red Arrow Member Red Faced - Another Heavy Down in Africa - USA Independence Day Drama 3 Airline Pilots to be Armed for Flights in the USA Conflict with TCAS and Controller cause of Mid-Air Cypriot Military Tragedy - USA Light Aircraft in Spotlight - 20+ Mustangs to be at Oshkosh Air-Show - Archerfield's Latest Acquisition 4 Drilling Rig Helicopter Down in North Sea - 11 Lost PA-28/235 Cherokee Force Lands at Rocklea Japan's Supersonic Model Test Failure - Redcliffe's Fly-Hire Tourist Prang - Salvo's C182 Hand-Start Catastrophe in Darwin - Jabiru J400 Down in Jakarta June 1 Bill Finlen Completes Solo Circumnavigation in V35 Bonanza Southern Cross Replica Tri-motor Crash Landing Taiwan's China Airlines Boeing 747-200 Lost with 225 on Board - OZ Cirrus Aircraft Up-and-Away - Aged Care for F-111 Aardvarks Costly - Choppa Down in Tasmanian Wilderness - C150 Stolen at Parafield - Redcliffe C310 Crunch before Brunch 2 South African Sports Star Dies in HS-748 Freighter Crash Chopper Accident in the Northern Territory Claims 4 Lives L-39 Ex-Military Jet on UK's M11 Motorway after Pilot's Failed Ejection - Trojan T-28 Warbird Adventure Flights Proving Popular 3 Two Ethiopian Hijackers Shot Dead by On-board Security Archerfield Airport New Charging System from July 1 Two QLD Aircraft with Undercarriage Problems - Around-the-World Balloonist Steve Fossett to Try Again - Cirrus SR22 Aircraft @ AF - OZ Air Controllers Strike 4 C-130 Hercules Wing Failure Steve Fossett commences Solo Circumnavigation in Balloon Caloundra Skyfox Up-ended - War on Terror Costly - MC-130 Loss - For Sale Airport; Handy Sydney - Low Flying Swedish Style May 1 OZ Lancair Kit Manufacturer Executed in OZ Power Lines Down 2 Choppers - 2 Parachutes Fail to Deploy B767 Jet Engine Sucks-up Mechanic - US Military Airshow F-4 Phantom Loss - Parachute from Afghan MiG-21 Fails - Russian Mi-8 Chopper Hits Power Line 2 Nigerian BAC 1-11 Passenger Jet Accident Claims 180 Lives Wings Fall Off 2 Military Fighters in Exercises - Light Aircraft Collide at Bankstown in Sydney Cairns Ground Effect Flightship - The Saga of United Flight 862 in Kiwi Land - Lindberg jnr.jnr. Arrives in Paris 3 OZ Designed GAAP Procedures Fail to Save 4 Lives - Bankstown Circuit Mid-Air Collision Images - Cabin Fire in Chinese MD-82 Passenger Jet Claims 112 Defence Minister in Flare Fright - EgyptAir Boeing 737 Hits Hill in Tunisia - Homebuilt Gyrocopter Lost in River - Steve Fossett's 6th Attempt at Solo Circumnavigation - Phantom Pilot Whereabouts 4 Archerfield Based V35 Bonanza in Solo World Flight British Royal Air Force Tornado Fighter Lost in River Ultralight in Record Flight from Parafield to Archerfield - Earth-Rounder Members Visiting Archerfield April 1 Airport Owner Impounds another Aircraft at Archerfield Cessna C210 Bites the Dust Qantas B747 in 'Dutch Roll' Acrobatic Manoeuvre - Acrobatic Manoeuvre claims Ultralight Pilot at Mareeba FNQ 2 Archerfield Pilot in Solo World Flight in 70's Single Engine Beech Bonanza V35B Unusual Vent Leak on Launch Pad Delays Shuttle Launch 3 Bad Day at the Office for Two US Air Force Pilots F-18's Collide in Mid-Air Manoeuvres Park Brake Fails in B767 at LAX 4 September 11 Revisited in Milan Italy Air China Boeing B767 Down with High Loss of Life African Stowaway Freezes to Death on Trip to UK - 1927 Lindbergh Flight Recreation - MU-2 'Widow Maker' Claims 2 - Aero Club Old Boys Reunion - AF News; Lancair Turbine; Fire Ants March 1 Massive Military Measures for Security over Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Perth Night Landing turns Sour - Dick Smith and Airspace Sandwich - Navaho Wheels-up on TV - QLD Uni's Failed 'HyShot' Rocket Found 2 An Old Aviation Company gets the Boot from Archerfield Ansett Airline Sell-up Starts British Airways B747 Emergency at Sydney - Space Signal Spectacular - OZ Airspace Airservices LAMP -v- Dick Smith's NAS 3 CASA Grounds local Flying School 8 months after Survey Dead Terrorist Issued with Study Visa in USA USA Twin out of Gas in FNQ - Aircraft Theft Foiled at Essendon Airport 4 CASA Grounds Top Aussie Aerobatic Pilot Air Traffic Controllers Strike Mid-air Collision in USA - Sea Fury Departs for NZ - Groundcraft return at AF February 1 Booming Airline Business Overseas - Irish Airline Orders up Real Big Qantas Jet Emergency in WA - Caboolture Mustang Airborne - Unpaid Dues remain Unpaid 2 Take-Off Braking Problem Destroys PA-32 Whitsunday Tourist Flight Aborted creating Ground Fire Accident News Summary for OZ - Qantas Cuts Back Flights and Aircraft - Archerfield Maintenance Shop Reborn 3 Second Russian Tu-154 Passenger Jet Down in 7 Months Archerfield Flying School to Close 4 800 People Saved by Electronic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) Two Qantas B747 Jumbo Jets Head-On Ultra-light Fatality in SW QLD - Pilot and Passenger Lost in Tiger Moth January 1 Happy New Year to all Readers - Not Happy is the Owner of Impounded PA-28R Aircraft - Late Night Entertainment USA - Sea how not to Land on Floats 2 Junior Terrorist hits High-rise in USA with stolen C172 - Airport Emergencies in OZ and UK - Seair Nomad on Surfers Beach - "Is Light Plane Flying really Safe" 3 Aircraft Survey in OZ shows Major Decline for Private/Business Flying Cessna Pilot missing in Far North QLD - Rocky Rescue Chopper Down - Korean MD-11 looks to be in Pepsi Advertisement 4 Boeing (Spy) B767 for Chinese President Kiwi Cessna C207 Hits Mountain on Tourist Flight Indonesian B737's making News - Archerfield's Owner making News 2001        Note:- Links to some external News Articles may have expired December Toowoomba's King Air take-off Disaster Qantas Spewing Aircraft Bits - Mackay Ultra-Light Fatality QLD Government Funds support Singapore Flying School Maintenance Costs ground Air Nauru B737 Lightie Emulates Heavy in WA - QLD Pilots "Cowboys" Royal Flying Doctor Service Loss of Pilot and Beech Super King-Air Another "New" Airline for OZ RAAF Emergency at Canberra - Shocking Start to Flight Holiday Surf'n USA Style - Hawker Hunter Departs AF Rotund Gentleman's Best Wishers - Festive Season in Full Swing CASA in the Media Limelight November USA's Future Fighter - Heavy Operator Withdraws from OZ Home-Bake Muffins Fly High - Concorde Back in Business Aircraft Owners to Pay Mega-Bucks Uni Scramjet Test Failure under Microscope Singapore B747 Descent Emergency USA's Hurricane Michelle & AOPA - General Aviation Statistics Airbus A300 Disintegrates Over New York Traffic-Stopping Parade of Private Aircraft in USA Home-built Jet Fighter - News Desk Confidential Incident Report Vintage Tiger Moth Flight-Review Disaster Russian Passenger Prop-jet Lost Heavy in Engine-out Emergency - Cessna C210 down in WA October OZ Government Rescues the Heavies - Underwriting Damage Claims - Guarantor for Ansett F-16s Escort Passenger Jet - Indian MiG-21 hits Houses C172 Down in Gippsland - Southport Jabiru Fatality Military Missile Shoots Down Airliner - Archerfield Warbirds Flying Museum under a Cloud Singapore Air Force Jet Lost - USA NOTAM Mayhem - Public Transport Attack - Qantas Rents Air Canada Jets - Archerfield 'Musical' Hangars Departing MD-87 Passenger Jet hits Citation II in Fog USA's VFR Light Aircraft Airborne again some Areas Rocket Powered Long-EZ - "Quote of the Year; 'Get that guy!'" Archerfield Warbirds - Hart Aircraft "Facts" Don Kendell's Last Departure Scramjet Test Flight - Airport Charges - Storm Reminder September Airbus A330 Deadsticks onto Island in Atlantic OZ Rock Star lost in Bell 47 - S2 Fire Fighters Collide - CN-235 Lands Short in Spain - C402 down in Carribean - Another LL G Pull Loss - Dick's WofW - PA 32 $1.5M Engine Start - C152 in Downwind Landing Fatality Go Week for Concorde - AF Simulators Roulettes Goodwill Games Visit - Tiger Moth Birthday Bash Terrorists create Black Day for USA - Ansett Closes CASA Contributes to Ansett Collapse - Caboolture Air Show Fishermen in FNQ find missing C206 The USA at WAR - VFR Light Aircraft Grounded Kiwi's Navigation Dilemma - Radial Engine Failure AF Flying Schools Terrorist Checkout - Air Show Cancellations August Archerfield Tower Time Capsule Government on Aviation Training - Airbus Aircraft Attacked - End of Air Show - USA's Mooney Aircraft Company in Financial Difficulties Solo Around the World by Balloon Launch 300,000 Piston Engines - Student deflects to Cuba - Beech A23 Down in WA Sydney Emergency - USA/Peru share Blame - Sonic Boom Shaping USA Mile High Club loss of Members An Italian Argument - OZ Safe Place to Fly - Blue sees Red Cooktown C182 - Ekka Show Solo World Balloon Flight Ends Gympie Ultra-Lights - Dick Smith at War - Qantas Aircraft Emergency Light'e down on Sydney Road July Light Twins bent with Pilots undergoing Training Bandit May Day - Trigger Happy F4 Pilot - Jet Hot Rain Particles Grapevine Gossip Up-date - MiG-15 - Qantas Boeing misses Truck TU-154 Passenger Airliner Lost with all on board Caloundra Air Museum - RAAF Amberley - Lucky Pollie/Unlucky LAME Low Budget Movie at AF - Darling Downs Aero Club C172 New look at Turning Theory Low Turn claims Sea Fury - Prop Overspeed claims PC-12 NO RADIO PROCEDURES Cessna Formation Concorde Airborne for Test Flight CASA Issued with Writs - Federation Outback Air Show New Path to AF Main Terminal - CASA in Spin over DVT June Archerfield Airport's Black Week Airfield Accidents claim Two Lives and a Serious Injury Flying Instructor Gus Day's Final Departure Decorating No-Go - Famous Air Show Closed - WA C172 Gate Crashes Central QLD Country on Show with Air Show Light Aircraft Safe - Avro Avian Sold - Sabotage at Boeing Airport Security - Raglan Fly-In Lack of Subsidy forces Airline Closure Flight West Shuts Down - World Balloon Attempt - Back Yard C172 Compressibility Confetti May CASA's Poor Report Card in ATSB Report Jump Zone Fatality - Qantas Accident Report - Kiwi Qantas Bust C185 Shot Down - A36 Loss - Dick Smith on CASA - Honey's Beeline Chopper Rescue's Chopper The Past is Present Germans turn Clock back 100 years - Kiwi Air Force 60 - Archerfield 30 Russian Helicopter at AF Radials Make Music - Russian Mriya Airborne - CAB v/s AF for Dominance Loss of Aviation Historian Globe Trotter - Vac Pumps - MCY C402 - TU-144 4 Sale - M/F Accident Report April The End is Mir - Space Station returns to Earth Comedian in Real Life Comedy as Unwilling Pilot Qantas on Sydney - Bomb Scare - FAA Grounds 65 Aircraft Airliners Now Crash as Light Aircraft - USA Accident Rate Kiwi A4 lost in OZ - DHC6 O/S Archerfield's Biggles Rescues Own Aircraft Flat 8, Boeing, Air Race, RAAF Emergency New Jabiru Engine - Boeing Long EZ - Pilot Shortage Chaos - Mobil Avgas Fiasco Race Aircraft Problems - RAAF Jet Engine Fire CASA Grounds Ansett B767's over Easter AF War - Race End - USA Help - FNQ Commander Prang AF History Recalled - UK to OZ Race Finish - CASA Extensions Chaos USA AOPA Rescue in OZ War of the Worlds - CASA-vs-Ansett Kiwi ATC - Ansett - New Safety Group - Spyplane Air Traffic Controller Time-Out - CASA's Double Standard Attacked Ansett Sacks Staff - CASA Boss and Incorrect Circuit Entry March Information Offered Freely Legislation Forced Down Bad Weather and Storm dodging ahead for CASA Boyd Munro's "Enforceable Voluntary Undertaking" - "Stalled" Flight Simulator Business Balloon Circumnavigation - Toller on OZ safety - Rotec Radial The Power of One - OZ Aviation Fraternity called to Battle Stations "Enforceable Voluntary Undertaking" with Senate - Aviation Academy Changes Comment on the EVU's - London to Sydney Race The Eagles depart - CASA $ War $ Games Begin Storms create Heavy Problems for Controllers AF's Eagles Departure - Storm at Brisbane - NASA Balloon - CASA's Dollar Fines AOPA Election (fun) - Boonah Murphy Rebel Destroyed Local Lancair in fatal Demo Flight Topics on Air Races - Air Shows - Heavies - Scramjets AF Lancair Destroyed - Boomerang to Kiwi Land - Thai Jet Explosion Ansett Engine Failure - AF Aircraft in Air Race - Caboolture Air Show DH82A's 70th Anniversary - Boonah Rebel Caught-Out - Costs Rise-$-Dollar Dives February Highlighting the importance of Situational Awareness Is the Heavy Jet Industry Heading for a Disaster ? Ansett Grounds It's Boeing 767s - Boeing 777 Aborts Take-Off Situation Awareness Comments - Wombat Program - Qantas Jet Base Relocation Mass Media Attention on Air Safety - Aviation Heavies throwing their Weight about QANTAS aborts at Charles De Gaulle airport OZ News Media and Light Aircraft Safety Reports - DC4 Freight Run to Norfolk Is. Aviation Trader with 3 AF Hangars For-Sale - Sunday Mail Editorial on Light Aircraft Accidents OZ 'Oldies' to the Rescue, Dad's Air Force keep RAAF Airborne RAAF Employ "mature age" Former Pilots and Technicians Amberley Emergency with Lockheed P-3C Orion - New Cirrus Arrives at AF Government Spends $200m on Non-Existent Aerodrome Air Show Practice Claims Another Aircraft - Kiwi Military Pilot Lost at Nowra Air Base QANTAS Trouble at Bangkok - CASA and Preferential Treatment Flight Simulator Business at AF - Kiwi A-4K Skyhawk Accident January Media Continue Harassment of CASA - OZ Operator Grounds 6 Boeing 767 Aircraft Aircraft Maintenance Comment - Aircraft Simulator Operator Sets-Up in Main Terminal Highlights from the Y2K - CASA Lack-of-Action with OZe MiG's "To Be, or Not To Be; That is The Question" - CASA past 'Use By Date' Is That The Question ? - Potential Crisis with CASA Operation HTML and the Pen -::- Airport Owner "Wheel Clamped" Cessna C150 National Holiday Road Toll-v-Air Toll Aviation Statistics for Light Aircraft - CASA approaching the Stall Opposition Minister and ATSB Investigation of CASA - Aviation Statistics Private/Business Flying Downturn "Backpacker Airline" DC3 to Amberley Museum - Hawker Pacific Spares Building now a Chocolate Shop A Tale about Tails - CASA in Tail Spin CASA Board Resignations - ATSB Investigating CASA and Resignations Dick Smith at AF - World Balloon Flight from Alice Light Aircraft Disasters on Australia Day Holiday - Flying Safety Record Shattered Boyd Munro and 2 Year Aircraft Registration Fiasco Boyd's BIG 'Piggy Bank' and CASA's errors - Local Pitts and Pilot Lost 2000        Note:- Links to some external News Articles may have expired December The Extremes of Luck and the Making of a Hero The Watt's Field Cessna C182 Force-Landing - Kiwi Registered Vans RV6 Accident Robinson R22 mishap at AF - Stardom Status for AF's DC4 "Queensland Warbirds" Association The Speed of Sound; Approaching Max Velocity Rate of Speech Output of Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers Queensland Warbirds Inaugural Meeting - Tiger Moth's 70th Birthday Celebrations CASA's Hot Topics Christmas Holiday Reading, A Hint for your Santa Archerfield's "ace" Professional Pilot and Injustice to "Bob" Hoover End-of-year Party Time for Airfield Workshops Working for a Living and Turbo Thrush Crop-Sprayer Accident Bankstown Residents Fight against Upgrade of Airport Support for Private Flying, CASA Survey Results President-Elect Bush Supports Private Pilots CASA Survey with Public wanting Stricter Supervision of Major Airlines Safer to Fly in OZ and Cost of Survey Comment - Kiwi S-2a Pitts Accident in NZ Stolen Piper PA-28 from Alice Springs Destroyed November Aircraft Registration Fiasco, Owners up in Arms Boyd Munro involvement in CASR 47 Regulation - C172 Mishap and Drama at Redcliffe Is Light Plane Flying Really Safe? News Roundup and Items of Interest Strikemaster Jet Departs - Archerfield's DC4 at Work Call to Sack CASA Chief Mick Toller Comment on High Cost and Inefficiency of the Civil Aviation Bureaucracy Aircraft Registration Back-Flip, CASA gets it Wrong New Aircraft Registration Procedures Repealed - Boyd Munro's Congratulations Brisbane Flying Group's "new" Grumman Tiger - DC4 Working "like a drover's dog" Declining OZe Dollar Attracts Overseas Buyers - RAAF Short on Pilots Media Headlines Target CASA, Safety Chief Defense CASA Chief Mick Toller Defends Himself after Second Breach of Regulations Comment on a "counselling session" with CASA - News Desk minor changes Brisbane City Council and Balham Road Extension Project Federal Transport Minister's Comment on Mick Toller October CASA at it Again - Changes for Aircraft Owners CASA introduces Changes for Aircraft Registeration Warbird Hangar nears Completion - Warbird Image Gallery Aviation News Roundup; News Items of Interest Toowoomba City Council Closes Sports Ovals Dick Smith and Airline Non-Compliance Notices Jon Johansen returns after World Flight Is Light Plane Flying Really Safe? AF Warbird Flying Museum Hangar Opening MiG15 Aborts Take-Off - Warbirds for Gold Coast Indy Car Race CASA Roasted by an All-Party Senate Committee Comment on Hiding Aircraft Defects from CASA Virtual Reality vis Warbirds World Fighter Pilots "hav'a go" in a real WW2 Fighter WW2 RAAF Fighter Ace Bobby Gibbes opens Warbird Hangar Kiwi Sea Fury now in OZ September Government approves Master Plan for AF Airfield future changes - Comment on 04/22 runway complex and length Phantom Flight of Beech Super King Air Beech 200 on autopilot across OZ - Dick Smith Web Site Aviation Roundup; Classic Undershoot B747 Jumbo Jets on Final - Comment on "drag 'em in with power" Build-at-Home Spacecraft 'Shuttle' Kit built aircraft designed for (outer) Space Loss of Brisbane Flying Group's Grumman Tiger at Fraser Island August Concorde Loss Disaster for the Darling of the Heavy Jet Set - Allison Powered Yak 3 Certificated "Pack-up and Leave" Process Continues at AF Archerfield International and Global Aviators Oshkosh "Club" of Earth-rounders - Meeting of Earth-rounder Details International Aviation News Aviation Air Shows in USA - Comment on Decline in OZ Air Show Activity Military Caribou's at AF News Desk Diversion, Heading Change Non-AF Aviation related items Details on 'home made' Movie of DC-10 Landing atop a Jeep on Los Angeles Freeway July News Service GST Free New Cirrus arrival at Archerfield - Time warp for News Desk CASA Blasted by Aero Engineer Bill Whitney - Renewal Time for Light Aircraft? Flight Manual Drama CASA's Flight Manual requirements under Attack "Order of the Block" Receipent Boyd Munro Notice to 8500 Aircraft Owners Arrival of L-39 Jet to Archerfield Auction at Caboolture Aircraft and Workshop Equipment under the Hammer - Auction Image Gallery Farmers Plight in OZ Tractors, Falling Logs and Aircraft are Farmers Hazards Comment on Dangers of having a Picnic under a Tree Douglas Invader from Caboolture Auction - "Take Off and Landing" Record Bid June Airfield Up-date Yak 52 Aborted Take Off on 22L - AOPA AGM Comments Reg Grundy's Week End PPL Ground Refresher Course What's New; Watts is New Queensland Vintage Aeroplane Group and "Breakfast Fly-in" at Watts Bridge Watts Airfield Progress - North Pole Flight by OZe Homebuilt What's Watts Field Ripcord Drop Zone at Annonay Dedication Service Archerfield based Cirrus Aircraft Sales Operation May Waiting for New Arrivals Kiwi Sea Fury and L-39 Russian Jet Trainer - Hawker Hunter Jet Fighter Undergoing Restoration - Comment on Flooded Roads and Light Aircraft use - Is No News, Good News? Spitfire Arrives John McCarron's Spitfire Replaces "Tweety Bird" C172 - Locally Built 'Spitfire' Kit - A.O.P.A. in Self Destruct Mode Weak Week AF's Boss Gavin Bird 'coffee 'n chat' - Comment on Economic Viability of Archerfield - New Hangar Construction - Rejunivation of "Jet Turbine" Parking Area April New Arriving Aircraft Archerfield's Warbird Flying Force Increase - Russian L-39 Jet Trainer on Order - CASA Office @ Archerfield Changes Changed Tower Procedures Archerfield's Control Tower Procedural Change - News Desk Observation "Private Flying ....going nowhere" Gearing up for Easter Aerobatic Championships and Air Shows - Keith Hinchliffe "built at home" Acro Sport - Watt Drop Zone airstrip at Annonay Upgrade March New Airspace Frequencies Airspace & Frequency Changes South of Archerfield - North of Sydney Comment on AsA exchange for "old" Nav Charts - Submarine U-707 Boat! Drama behind the Scenes at AOPA Levy Causing Mass-Debate Amongst Members - AF MiG-15 in Need of New Owner Military moving in to AF Air Force Caribou's in for Service - Comment on Light Aircraft not welcomed at Military Airfields - Visitors and the Ayres LET 420 Success at Last for IMC rating Basic Instrument Rating Approval for Private Pilots February Combat Scramble Mobil Legal Class Actions become Airborne - CASA Chief Red-Faced after Test Flight Stalls Water Working in Fuel Tanks Cleansing Process continues for Affected Aircraft - Kiwi Sir Tim Wallace's Grumman Avenger now with JetCraft's Boss - Skydiving from Space in World's Largest Parafoil Mobil in Hot Seat Archerfield Operators meet the Mobil Avgas Team at an Open Forum Back to Business for Flying Schools Annual intake of new Student Pilots - AOPA Management Issue Warning to Professional Pilots Rumour Network (PPRuNe) January Review of 1999 Highlights of the past 12 Months - Bob Tait's Aviation Theory School Relocation Y2K Millennium Bug Strikes Archerfield's Control Tower on New Year's Day The Bug that Was AirCentre News Page hit by "The Bug" Mobil Avgas Aircraft Grounded by CASA Mobil Fuel Contamination Crisis Deepens with Flying School's Light Aircraft Grounded by CASA - Hangar 3 For Rent - Visual Flight Guide released by CASA The Aircraft Grounding continues - CASA loosing the Plot - Now THREE Avgas Contaminants Shell LL Avgas Users non-concerned 1999 December CASA Y2K Bug - RQAC 80th. Anniversary - Yak 3 Public appearance End-of-Year Party Time - Tower changes - Order of the Block AirCentre Awards - Russell Broadbent OB Christmas and New Year Celebrations Mobil Fuel Contamination November Wirraway/B747 Captain and the BFR; DC4 Flying Status; Loss of Turbine C210 Closure of Reg's Flying School - Party Time @ AF C172 Lights at Night - RQAC Legal Action - Airfield Ghosts PA30 Twin Comanche Accident near WA Border October Grummans - Brisbane Flying Group's New Aircraft Accidents Heavy V Light - Qantas B747 v Jabiru Take-Off and Landing Record - Bobby Gibbes Home Built Twin C182 and "Wing Clapping" Phenomenon, Pilot Errors RQAC 80th Anniversary, CASA and Federal Law Court September Birdsville Week - C.A.S.A "Tower" Cessna Caravan C208 - Skydive Aircraft DC4 Grounded - Qantas Female Pilot Russian Aircraft - Yak 3 and Yak 52 August Allison powered Yak 3 - Nose-Wheel mod. on Beech 18 Robinson R44, UK to OZ - Twin Pioneer Visitor at "Ekka" Show Time Classic Victorian based Beech 18 - GoodYear Blimp visit New Queensland Pilot Supplies Shop - Caboolture Bi-annual Air Show Ex Kiwi TBM Grumman Avenger July CASA Y2K Bug - Yak 3 - Lancair Airport Drama Italian Avia Certification Arrival of New Su-31 New Flying School AAQ - Return of the DC4 June Record Viewers/Page up-grade - PNG Defence Force Chopper - Woodfall Hut - Mini Movie Drama @ AOPA - Mooney "Wheels Up" on Archerfield's Runway 28R Super Connie Visit Archerfield Spitfires - Pest Control Hangar Noel Bellamy of Archerfield Flight Centre Last Departure - SeaAir C208 - ZK PA28R - DCA V35 May Hawker Pacific Hangar Closure - Chocolate Airship - AN2 CAP32 - LightWing C of A's Federal Budget - Fuel Levy - Garmin GPS News - Italian Avia F.22R - STOL Storch Sunbird Seeker - New Flying School April Widgeon/Cessna VH-UGI/Steve Taddeucci - Twin Pioneer/Radial Engines Sunland Aviation Jenkinson's Surprise Party - Return of the Goose/Lancair Group March DC4 - AWOL - Archerfield Master Plan Meet. - A.O.P.A. AF Meeting - Douglas Aviation Paint Shop AAC Industrial Development - CASA-/Dick Smith Retirement February Lancair IV Sale - R.Q.A.C. PA32R Forced Landing - DC4 Engine Failure - Arena Class of '99 New C182 Demo - Darra Cement Works - Sunland Sale - A.A.C. Airport Master Plan - Flight Manuals January Past Year Highlights - Holiday Accidents - Shorts 330 - Hempel's Hangar a "No Go" Airservices & "Fighting Fund" - Avro Avian Visit - DC4 Missing - C47/DC3 - QANTAS Tails 1998 December RQAC Open Day/Hempels Display - Black Hawks - PA 28/140 Radio Position - Wirraway & DH82A's - DC4 - Xmas Parties - "G" Airspace Termination - DC4 Engine - Santa Music November Lang Kidby/Avro Avian - Care Flight/Beech 17,18 & Irish Sub. - Mini-movie/Caboolture C182 Accident - Open Days/Redcliffe/AF Redevelopment - Gavin Bird & Santa appearance October Dick Smith Visit - MiG 15/H4 Islander - Ulm Commemorative Flight - Glastar/DC4 - C172RG Mishap/Class G Airspace Comment September Aircraft Auction - USA Pilatus Porter - SSA CFI Move - Kelvie Lowry to USA August Waco/EAA Oshkosh/ZK C206 - DC4 on 3 - Ekka Parking - Lost C152 - Bob Tait mini Air-show - Ch.10 TV Chopper Loss - Bus/DH82A, CFI (Steve) Mateo July Archerfield Airport Corp. - Airservices and Avgas Prices - Cafeteria "break in" - C210 Turbo-prop - Nanchang CJ6 - Lancair IV to U.S.A. - Avro Avian Accident in UK - New Aircraft Categories June Avgas - 16c/litre Reduction - Hunter's "Big Guns"/Airship - Safety Foundation/C337 - Charges Drama/Tower Costs - The AF Irish Sub - Show Eagle May Reader Survey - Lycoming AD 102 - AA5A Cheetah Accident - Avro Avian/Lang Kidby - MUM to the Rescue - R.Q.A.C. Eagles April Canberra Headwind - New Fuel Farm Ops. - Archerfield Airport Sale Details - Pilots in Wonderland - Military Weary Rotors March New Fuel Depot - Lancair 4 Turbo - Acro Sport First Flight - Long EZ's Customs Clearance - Cessna 421B Landing February Cafeteria Move - Hawker Hunters - Piper Tomahawks AD - DC4 Engine - PA31 in Tiger Country January Review of 1997 - AirCentre Stats. - Fuel Farm "high rise" - Hawker Hunters - Refueling Truck's Taxiway 1997 December AF Bomb Scare - Fuel Farm Tanks - Xmas Parties - Dick Smith Visit - Overseas WWW Viewers - Airport Cafeteria - Jabiru Lands at School November Media Release on AF Sale - DC4 return - GPS Moving Map - Storm and Gazelle Damage - Carmody-Appleton - DOT Aviation Policy - Where Santa Sleeps October AF Sale - Skydivers - K. Hinchliffe(Acro Sport) - RC114 Emergency/Lear Jet - RFDS/USA Ferry September For Sale - Super Connie - West OZ Eagle - A36 Bonanza - C210 Gear Emergency August DC4 Parking Charges - Rolls Royce/Jabiru - Fuel Farm - Ekka Graziers - Airport Sale Details/B200 July RC114 to N.Z. - Peter Henderson B200 - Long-EZs Home - LightWings C of A - C150 Landing Mishap - SSA Sale June Dick Rutan & Mike Melvill Updates - "Wedding" Photos - Pinocchio Sniffer - Chocolate Airship May Counter - Jabiru "GroundCraft" - T6 Victa - German V35s - Dick Rutan/Long-EZs - New DC4 Owner April AF Sale Date - Airside Access - GroundCraft Bus - Airship - Jabiru 55/VH - Hughes 500D "Woodpecker" - PA38/Defiant March Airport Tender - Guido Zuccoli - SSA Scholarship - Thailand B200 - Jon Johanson Visit February Aero Club F/F - V-Tail - Tiger F/F - Smithy - Chinese A/C - Record Claim (Peter Henderson) January AF History - Emergency - Roulettes - DC4 Grounded 1996 December Flying Scholarship - Hail Storm - New Waco - Hans Gutmann - UFO's November Military "beat up" - Unusual Activity - DH82 Tiger Tail October J Fisher DH82 "England to Australia" - Seeker - Minden Bus - Airport Stats September O/S Visitor Hans Gutmann - T6 Arrival - Jet Provost - Concorde AF Overfly - Hot Air Balloon August DH82 Prop - Laurie Curley - DC4 Movie - RC114 - Buses - "Playboy" - Top Secret July Boyd Muno OB "Order of the Block" - Gull Wing Piper PA32 © AirCentre 1996 -  HOME