David Eyre
The City of Perth council has commenced the process to develop a permanent commercial helipad in Perth’s central business district, on the Swan River. The council last night passed...
WA Aviation News
Air New Zealand revealed in June 2013 that its new fleet of Boeing 787-9 aircraft will fly to the destinations of Shanghai, Tokyo, Perth, Honolulu and Papeete. Air...
AirAsia X plans to increase its flights to Australian capitals, including additional flights to Perth. The airline plans to have twice daily flights between Kuala Lumpur and Perth, increasing...
Virgin Australia took delivery of its 100th Boeing 737 aircraft with the arrival in Brisbane on 26 July 2013 of VH-YFR “Scamander Beach”, with the aircraft wearing a ‘100th...
© David Eyre The Aircraft Noise Ombudsman published a report in October 2012 regarding a proposal that aircraft taking off from Perth Airport should use the full length of...
Airbus has delivered its 8,000th aircraft, a sharklet-equipped Airbus A320 for Indonesia AirAsia, registered PK-AZF (MSN 5706, ex F-WWDC). The aircraft departed Toulouse, France on 3 August 2013, and...
Malaysia Airlines has announced that it will increase its current once weekly Kota Kinabalu service to twice weekly from 30 October 2013. The service uses Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The...
Greg Meechan has reported that following the takeover of Skywest Airlines by Virgin Australia and its renaming as Virgin Australia Regional Airlines, on Wednesday 31 July 2013, the last...
1 August 2013 © David Eyre As reported in AviationWA on 19 January 2013, Channel Ten News JetRanger helicopter VH-ZMN crashed at Baskerville as it was filming a truck...
Defence Minister Stephen Smith has announced the sale of five former RAAF Lockheed C-130H Hercules aircraft to Indonesia at a discounted price, including a simulator and spare parts. It...
Airbus has celebrated the delivery of the 1,000th A330, to Cathay Pacific. The aircraft, registered B-LBB, is an A330-343X (MSN 1436), powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines. It was...
19 July 2013 Aviation journalist Geoffrey Thomas reported in The West Australian that Perth Airport is bringing forward discussions with airlines regarding an upgraded Instrument Landing System (ILS), and...
19 June 2013 © David Eyre Skippers Aviation today received their first jet aircraft, Fokker 100 PH-LXG (later registered VH-XKN), following its delivery flight from Europe. This is the...
17 June 2013 © David Eyre Jetstar Airways has today announced a new 4-times weekly service between Perth and the Indonesian island of Lombok, which is located to the...
12 June 2013 22 Pilatus PC-9/A aircraft of the RAAF 2FTS were flown in ‘Thunderbird’ formation over Perth and surrounding areas today to celebrate the graduation of pilots on...
