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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 Ø 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 Ø - 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 Communiquè 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