VH-IXN Extra EA300/LC 330LX (MSN LC-007, built 2011) flown by Mark Jefferies, photographed from VH-YXN Extra EA-300/SC (MSN SC052) flown by Tom Cassells, aircraft owned by Awesome Asset Securities Pty Ltd / Awesome Aviation, over Avalon Air Show, Victoria – Sat 28 February 2015. The WA-based Awesome Global Stars Aerobatic Team performing their display at the 2015 Avalon Air Show. Photo © Awesome Aviation/Tom Cassells
VH-IXN (background) Extra EA300/LC 330LX (MSN LC-007, built 2011) flown by Mark Jefferies, photographed from VH-YXN Extra EA-300/SC (MSN SC052) flown by Tom Cassells, aircraft owned by Awesome Asset Securities Pty Ltd / Awesome Aviation, over Avalon Air Show, Victoria – Sat 28 February 2015. The WA-based Awesome Global Stars Aerobatic Team performing their display at the 2015 Avalon Air Show. Photo © Awesome Aviation/Tom Cassells
VH-YXN Extra EA-300/SC (MSN SC052) flown by Tom Cassells, aircraft owned by Awesome Asset Securities Pty Ltd / Awesome Aviation, over Avalon Air Show, Victoria – Sat 28 February 2015. The WA-based Awesome Global Stars Aerobatic Team performing their display at the 2015 Avalon Air Show. Mark Jefferies is the other pilot, flying VH-IXN. Photo © Awesome Aviation/Tom Cassells
VH-IXN (background) Extra EA300/LC 330LX (MSN LC-007, built 2011) flown by Mark Jefferies, photographed from VH-YXN Extra EA-300/SC (MSN SC052) flown by Tom Cassells, aircraft owned by Awesome Asset Securities Pty Ltd / Awesome Aviation, over Avalon Air Show, Victoria – Sat 28 February 2015. The WA-based Awesome Global Stars Aerobatic Team performing their display at the 2015 Avalon Air Show. Photo © Awesome Aviation/Tom Cassells
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Awesome Global Stars Aerobatic Team. VH-YXN (lower) Extra EA-300/SC (MSN SC052) and VH-IXN (upper) Extra EA300/LC 330LX (MSN LC-007, built 2011), owned by Awesome Asset Securities Pty Ltd / Awesome Aviation, over Rockingham – Thu 19 February 2015. Pilots are Mark Jefferies and Tom Cassells. The Awesome Global Stars Aerobatic Team were busy training at Murrayfield in preparation for the Avalon Air Show – they departed for the show on 21 February 2015. VH-YXN is brand new, built in 2014 and registered on 1 December 2014. Photo © Awesome Aviation
21 February 2015 (UPDATED with new video clip 9 March 2015)
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The WA-based aerobatic team, Awesome Global Stars , performed at the 2015 Avalon Air Show , which ran from 24 February to 1 March 2015 in Avalon, Victoria.
Pilots Mark Jefferies and Tom Cassells flew the Awesome Global Stars’ pair of Extra 330 aerobatic aircraft – both pilots are British national aerobatic champions in the UK in a number of categories and perform displays at airshows around the world. They both performed displays at the 2014 Farnborough Air Show, and Mark Jefferies displayed at the 2013 Avalon Air Show.
The Global Stars’ display sequence includes extreme aerobatic manoeuvres, designed to show the capabilities of the Extra 330 aircraft.
The team is sponsored by Perth-based aircraft leasing company Awesome Aviation. Awesome Aviation’s CEO Dieter Ebeling is himself an accomplished aerobatic pilot, winning two medals at the 2014 FAI Intermediate World Aerobatic Championships.
The Awesome Global Stars aerobatic team departed
More photos are available in the February 2015 page of our Aircraft Photos section of the website.