Airborne Technologies of Austria (www.airbornetechnologies.at) has recently announced a multi-mission version of the twin-engined Tecnam P2006T. The standard P2006T received its FAR23 certification in May this year, by which time it had already attracted almost 100 orders from around the world.
The Tecnam MMA (Multi Mission Aircraft) is targeted at organisations requiring an affordable, economical surveillance platform.
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By Alan Mitchell.
The New Zealand Air Line Pilots’ Association (NZALPA) is launching a major strategic initiative to extend its coverage and sphere of activity into the general aviation industry (GA). GA pilots are faced with the typical range of employment issues and problems that workers everywhere face; they are also the prime recruitment pool for the airline turboprop ...
NZALPA Contingency Fund Trust - Inaugural A-Category Instructor Rating Scholarship
Alan Mitchell outlines NZALPA’s drive to encourage more general aviation members and introduces the inaugural A-Category Instructor Rating scholarship funded by NZALPA’s Contingency Fund TrustOshkosh 2009. Screw the Economy—Let’s Fly!
When he visited the world’s biggest air show this year, Mike Friend found that the economic misery affecting ...By Don Harward
I know what it is like to love a woman so much that it physically hurts to walk away from her. I know what it is like to have a deep and abiding respect for my father and to admire him for the sacrifices in his life. I know what it costs to be ...
In a presentation in Sydney on the 26th of October, Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ vice president of marketing, Randy Tinseth offered Boeing’s market data and forecast for both the global and Oceania commercial aeroplane market. He said that globally, by 2028, airlines would need 29,000 new aeroplanes valued at US$3.2 trillion. According to Boeing’s forecast, as part of that ...
Rev Richard Waugh, the organiser of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of New Zealand’s first licensed scheduled airline reports that good progress is being made in planning for the event. The celebration will begin at Hokitika Airport on Friday 18 December, where visitors will be able to take “joyrides” in historic de Havilland aircraft in the morning. On ...
From 5-31 July 2010, Don Hillier, an experienced international tour guide, will be hosting a tour of numerous aviation highlights around the Northern Hemisphere.
Beginning in Moscow, the tour will take in aviation attractions and museums in Italy, France, the UK and USA. In addition to the museums and similar attractions, the tour’s timing incorporates both the Farnborough ...
The New Zealand Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) recently released its full report into the 17 February 2008 mid-air crash at Paraparaumu, involving a Robinson R22 flown by a pilot undergoing a flight examination, and a Cessna 152 flown by a solo pilot, in which all three occupants of both aircraft died.
The report identified the main ...
Last month, the Southern DC-3 Trust held a charity fund-raising auction dinner at the Air Force Museum at Wigram in Christchurch. The main exhibition hall of the museum was a uniquely appropriate setting for the event, complete with its own restored RNZAF DC-3 as a backdrop.
ZK-AMY, the DC-3 operated by the Southern DC-3 Trust has been ...
