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The new light sport aircraft category has spawned a wealth of innovation, produced some amazing flying capabilities, and brought new vigour to entry-level aviation. Piper has now entered the market by taking an already-developed LSA, enhancing it with some Piper-devised improvements, and marketing it globally as the Piper Sport.
Hawker Beechcraft is now reshaping strategies to heighten its Asia Pacific representation in response to the growing regional demand that is reflected in recent and expected deliveries. Hawker Beechcraft sales & demo pilot Gian Grasso says the plans provide full-time availability of demonstrator jets and turboprops which will reside in various areas including the Asia Pacific region as required.
An AviationAdvertiser study has revealed growing nationwide alarm over the future of provincial, rural and capital city secondary airports. Not only airport users, but also community figures are now becoming more conscious of the malpractices and neglect that threaten existing airports that form a vital part of the national transport infrastructure. Airport users blame departmental inertia, indifference, and in some cases negligence, along with political don’t-want-to-know-about-it attitudes, to the plight of these airports. Hearing aviation’s tales of woe from around the nation, we began documenting some of the worst examples, expanded on them in a brief analysis, and then lent our resources to coordinate an approach to Minister Albanese. Small groups or individuals at five selected locations then quickly collected over 1,000 signatures to a letter to the Minister calling on him to use existing laws and contracts to reverse the rot.
Last Friday (July 23) at about 4.30 pm, somebody slipped an envelope under the door of a Bankstown air operator. Soon afterwards, the operator received a telephone call advising that there was an envelope under his door. Despite the pathetic slapstick comedy of conducting official business in such ways, the message was an extremely serious one, being a CASA advice that the company’s two separate air operator certificates (AOC) were suspended with immediate effect.
We previewed it in April last year but Airborne Technologies and Tecnam waited until today to announce it at Farnborough. With a fanfare at the world’s favourite airshow, Austria based Airborne Technologies, active in the field of airborne surveillance, presented a smart & efficient twin engine Tecnam P2006T specially modified for observation, law enforcement, mapping and sensing missions.
R.I.P. Pip. My most sincere condolences to Janet, Edwin and Sarah. Pip was a great friend, and a generous and fair employer. I’ve never known anyone with a greater sense of humor and a desire for fun. He was a practical joker and loved life to the full. He was the ultimate professional and will be greatly missed by so many.