When Peter Vincent recently went looking for another Beech 1900D to add to his Darwin fleet, he wanted the best 1900 he could find—which just happened to be in South Africa. As Willie Sage writes, the plum job of ferrying the new aircraft from Johannesburg to Darwin fell to him and Craig Anderson. When Craig Anderson, our maintenance controller—and recently type-rated ...

Auckland’s New Saviour ARHT’s BK117B2. New Year 2007 is a new beginning for the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust as it begins operating the first helicopter it has owned rather than leased. A Beech Between Continents When Peter Vincent needed another Beech 1900 for Vincent Aviation Australia, the best one he could find in the world was in South ...

A Ninetieth Birthday Tribute to the Incomparable Sopwith Camel. By Charles Hamlin. “Aircraft, which in my youth trembled like living things, if they trembled today, they would be sent back to servicing for overhaul. We shrug and say: It can’t be helped; but what captain of a transport aircraft, hedged in with courses, corridors, controls, does not long to send them all ...