Sounds Air Travel & Tourism Ltd. has purchased another Cessna C208 Caravan, ZK-TZR. The aircraft will operate between Wellington and Picton, Nelson, Blenheim and Kaikoura in conjunction with Sounds Air’s two existing Cessna Caravans. The latest Sounds Air Caravan was built in 2002 and imported into New Zealand by Izard Pacific Aviation, based at Springhill Airfield, Wellsford. It had only completed ...

By Graeme Mollison. In the mid-1960s, New Zealand's National Airways Corporation (NAC) was looking for a replacement for its Vickers Viscounts on its main trunk domestic routes. The jet age had arrived and, as the company's report stated, its aim was: "To select a modern long-life aircraft which is best suited to the route structure in New Zealand with the best ...

The Boeing 737—40 Years’ New Zealand Service NAC was one of the first airlines in the world to embrace the type that has become the world’s most popular airliner. Graeme Mollison outlines the 737’s first 40 years of successful service with NAC and Air New Zealand. AVEX 2008—Small Steps to a Big Future Last month, Pacific Wings was one of 38 exhibitors at ...

America’s Transportation Security Administration is in the process of writing some rules that it says “will increase the security of general aviation”. General aviation covers everything that isn’t a military or scheduled commercial flight. If adopted, the new rules would apply to all general aviation aircraft over 12,500 pounds, a category that, by some estimates, includes more than 10,000 aircraft ...

NASA is working with Gulfstream to test a “fly-by-cam” system in which the pilot of a supersonic business jet would be able to land an aircraft using a video feed from a high definition camera. According to The Register, the system is aimed at solving one of the vexing issues facing development of supersonic bizjets in that their design almost ...

TracPlus USA Inc. and DAC International, Inc. have announced a worldwide distribution agreement that will see DAC International distribute TracPlus’s next generation tracking, messaging and data service. DAC International, which is an operating subsidiary of The Fairchild Corporation, has been operating since 1981. It is an avionics sales and distribution company that specialises in the sale and distribution of sophisticated avionics ...

The largest airship in the world, the Airship Ventures Zeppelin, recently completed a trans-oceanic crossing from Hamburg, Germany, to Beaumont, Texas, aboard a container ship. It has since completed a flight under its own power from Texas to its new home—the former naval air station at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, which is about 64 km south of San ...

The 25th of October marked the first year of airline service for the Airbus A380. The first production A380 was handed over to Singapore Airlines on 15th October 2007 and made its first operational flight for the airline 10 days later with a special charity flight between Singapore and Sydney. Since then, the A380 has also entered service with Emirates Airline ...