Archives 2007 Select Month below - Click and then Click again on Selected Month to View Weekly Record JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER January 1  Overhead Wires Continue to Pluck Light Aircraft from the Sky  Power-Lines Snare Crop-Duster Working in the 'Downs Area  Cessna 172 Trainee Pilot Attracted to Drainage Ditch at Moorabbin Airport -  Boeing and OZ Governments Contribute $54 million Towards Scramjet Research 2  Aircraft Parachute Fails to Save Occupants of Sting Ultralight  Local Goulburn Pilots Lost when Aircraft Encounters Problems 3  Jaguar Fighter Explodes Mid-Air During Live-Firing Exercise  Indian Air Force Pilot and Aircraft Lost - 2 Years 13 Aircraft  Pilot Aborts Take-Off at Bankstown - Lands on Runway Collapsing Undercart 4  Captain of Boeing Passenger Jet Incapacitated During Flight  Co-Pilot Takes Over Command - Successfully Lands Aircraft  Sydney Basin Courses for Horses Invaluable in Light Aircraft Emergencies February 1  Helicopter Accident in North-West NSW Highlights Dangers of Rescue  Westpac Rescue Rotary-Wing Wrecked Responding to Emergency Call QANTAS B747 Jumbo in Emergency Landing at Sydney after Engine Failure - Light-Twin Lost Attempting Emergency Landing at Coolangatta after Engine Failure - Cirrus Aircraft in Emergency Landing West of Sydney - Pilot and Passenger Injured 2  ATSB Seek Assistance to Locate Cirrus Ballistic Parachute Panel 3  Brazil now Ranks Third in Number of Aircraft Sold Globally  Largest Manufacturer of Light Aircraft in Expanding Economy  QANTAS Flight Attendant Sacked after Mile-High Romp with British Actor 4  Vans RV-4 Home-Built Kit-Aircraft Destroyed - Two Lives Lost  Glider Pilot Killed in Training Accident at Lake Keepit Airstrip  Bankstown Training Flight Ends Prematurely with Crash of TB-10 Tobago  Indonesia's Adam-Air Heavy in HEAVY Landing that Closed the Main Airport March 1  OZ Enters Race to Space with New Rocket Launch Facility  Christmas Island Set to be Spaceport for Aurora Vehicles 2  Pilots in Spotlight after Passenger Jet Crash at Yogyakarta  Five Australians Killed when Boeing B737 Slides off Runway  WA's Top Uranium Mining Executive Killed in South African Light Aircraft Accident  Beachgoers Entertained by Ultra-Light Landing at Victoria's Phillip Island 3  Administrator Appointed to Arena Aviation P/L Company  Archerfield to Redcliffe Operational Transfer Unsuccessful  OZ Government $20M Plus Surveillance Radar Bungle in Torres Strait  Top OZ Government Bosses in RAAF C-130 Hercules Emergency Landing  Roma Light Aircraft Prang - Single-Engine Aircraft Damaged 4  OZe Light Aircraft Industry Decline Continues with Closures  Maintenance Engineering and Flying Training Expertise Lost  Rockwell Commander Landing Prang at Blackall in Central West QLD April 1  CASA's Poor Surveillance of Regional Airlines in ATSB Report  Non-Standard Instrument Approach Contributes to Air Disaster Cirrus Ballistic Parachute Fails to Save Pilot and Passenger from Injury  Military Parachute Saves Student Pilot after Inadvertent Ejection Seat Activation 2  Easter Prangs - Perth's B200 - Melbourne's C152 - Ultralights x 2 - One Fatality 3  Legendary World War II Fighter Ace Bobby Gibbes Final Departure Ultralight Tragedy at Howard Airpark - Two Killed when Allegro Ultralight Clips Trees -  Helicopter Pilot Injured in Crop-Duster Accident at Walkerston Central QLD -  Holden Lightship Airship Returns to Archerfield 4  Jabiru in Emergency Landing near Bundaberg - The Ultralight's Birthplace May 1  Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 with 114 POB Lost En-route to Nairobi 2  Light Aircraft Tie-Down "Bomb" -- It Could Only Happen In the UK ...Wrong! 3  Two Killed in Microlight Accident at FNQ's Oak Valley  Blue Mountains Light Aircraft Prang - Two POB Rescued 4  Bad Weather Claims Piper Arrow Turbo at Esperance - Three Lives Lost  QLD Station Property Helicopter Pilot Injured in Crash  West OZ Real Life Hero Stuff in BD-5B Fire Engulfing Prang  Hempel's Flying School C172 Wrecked in Cross-Country Training Flight  Charted Cherokee Six Ditches in Torres Strait after Engine Malfunction  Another New - But Really Old - Flying School Starts up at Archerfield June 1  Tools-of-Trade Work Van Denied Access to the Job on Archerfield Airport 2  Mackay Marine Pilot in Ocean Ducking along with Chopper Pilot  Raglan's Old Station Long Weekend Fly-In 2007 Report  Longreach - Final Resting Place for First Qantas Passenger Jet 3  Joyflight in Home-Built Ultralight Turns Tragic for Sunshine Coast Family  Jabiru attracted to South OZ Vineyard - Ends up Inverted on Grape Vines  Mid-Year Mid-Month Statistics - International Visitors - Click to View 4  Noel Notley - Archerfield Personality from the '70/80's - Memorial Service  Kiwi Kerfuffle over B1900 Commuter Prop-Jet Emergency Landing Aerodrome July 1  Headset Saves Passenger in Turbo-Prop Explosive Decompression @ 20,000ft 2  End of 60 Year Era at Archerfield - George Ditchmen's Final Departure 3   Landing Mishap in USA Claims Famous P-51D Warbird and 'New' Owner Pilot  Landing Mishap at Perth's Jandakot Airport with PA-32 Claims Pilot's Pride  Ultralight Emergency Landing West of Caboolture in SE QLD Successful 4  Landing Accident at Oshkosh Air-Show Claims Mustang Warbird and Pilot  Explosion at Rutan's Spaceport Facility at Mojave USA Claims Three  Landing Accident at Caboolture Claims Aircraft and Pilot's 20 Year Dream  Gyrocopter Landing Accident Claims Pilot at Applethorpe in SE QLD  Experts Agree - Airline Pilot Shortage Affecting Safety Standards Worldwide August 1  Safety Standards Breached at Archerfield - Pilots Challenge Government for Action  Severe Weather Claims Twin-Engine Aircraft and Two Lives in Victoria's North 2  Aussie wins NASA Challenge for Sport Aircraft in Slovenia Pipistrel Virus  OZ Designed and Built Whitney Boomerang Commences Production  Aircraft Looses Wing in Landing Accident at Bankstown 3  Pilots and Operators Get Political over Archerfield's Aviation Safety Standards  Kiwi Built Fletcher and Pilot Lost in Far North Queensland  $15,000 Supercat Ultralight Down in Blue Mountains Area - Pilot Injured 4  Dick Smith Donates $100,000 to Airservices Australia for Control Tower Services  CASA Grounds High-Time Cessna 400 Series Prop-Jets in OZ  Rain-Soaked Paddock Inverts Drop-Zone Cessna C182 after Forced Landing  Wild Wallaby takes on Beech B200 Super King Air at Tindal RAAF Base  American Paul MacCready - Father of Human Powered Flight - Last Departure September 1  Launch of Glider by Winch and Cable near Goulburn turns Fatal  Ultralight Emergency Landing Practice on North Stradbroke Island Airstrip turns Real 2  Three Race Pilots Killed at Reno Air Races in Nevada  Adventurer Steve Fossett Missing in Nevada USA 3  Air Race Mania - Rocket Powered Machines Gearing up to Race  Aircraft Crashes from around the Globe - MD-82 Passenger Jet - Formation Prang  USA's CIA Veterans Reminisce over Retired A-12 'Blackbird' Spy Aircraft 4  Cattle Muster in West OZ turns Fatal with Loss of Pilot and Helicopter  Fairchild Metroliner in Engine-Out Emergency Landing at Whyalla in South OZ  The Search for Steve Fossett Continues Three Weeks after Disappearance October 1  Archerfield's Hangar 6 Tenants - Jetline Engineering - Move to Brisbane International 2  Bribie Island Road used for Emergency Landing of Van's RV7 Home-Built  Parafield Airport Runway Closed after C182 Landing Accident 3  Pilot Missing in WA - Emergency Services Locate Wreckage of Aircraft  Freight Aircraft Engulfed in Flames at Alice Springs Airport - Pilot Escapes  Cessna 210 Undercarriage Extension Failure at Port Lincoln in South OZ  Transition® - Storing of Light Aircraft in Hangars at Airports - Is The End Near?  Ultralight Leads the Way for Migratory Flock of North American Whooping Cranes 4  Wild Storm Wrecks Light Aircraft and Hangars at Gayndah in Central QLD  OLD Pilot Training School Taken-Over by NEW Flying School at Archerfield November 1  Pilot Shortage Proof - Oze Election Campaign Hires Overseas Aircraft and Pilots  Rex Suspends Queensland Flights due Pilot Shortage  Archerfield Light Aircraft Emergency Attracts the Best in the Business  Darwin Airport Emergency Delays Passenger Jets 2  Airservices to Shut Down 27 VHF Aviation Repeaters in OZ - Dick Smith NOT HAPPY  German Tourists Killed in Outback - Cessna Snares Wire on World's Longest Runway  Gyrocopter Pilot Training Exercise at Echuca Turns Tragic for Instructor and Student  Engine Failure during Take-Off in Boeing 737 at South Africa's Cape Town Airport 3  Cessna C337 with 4 POB Impacts Sea in Southern Victoria  Professional Pilot Lost in Cessna 172 Accident in Remote North-West of OZ  Having a Bad Day at the Office - Made an Error - Few Thousand Million $'s Worth?  Light Aircraft Activity Continues Downward Trend from Peak of 30 Years Ago 4  Tassie 2-Seat Home-Built Ultralight Prang Claims Two Lives  Small Home-Built Gyrocopter Accident Injures Pilot - 6 Emergency Vehicles Respond  QANTAS Fined in USA for Price-Fixing of International Air Cargo Rates December 1  Life Lost when Ultralight and Light Aircraft Collide at Latrobe Valley in VIC  • Victorian Aircraft Accidents Claim 7 Lives in 4 Months • 2  Col Pay Feared Dead in Crash at Lake Liddell in NSW Hunter Region  • Experimental Water-Scoop on Converted Crop-Duster Possible Cause •  4-Seat Piper Demolished in Forced Landing on VIC's Mornington Peninsula 3  • JetCraft • Major Archerfield Based Aviation Company in Financial Trouble  Wires Snare Cessna 150 in WA - Two Onboard Escape Serious Injury  Training Twin in Trouble at Scone with Heavy Landing Go-Around 4  Cessna 210 Retractable in Wheels-Up Landing at Atherton in FNQ  R-44 Professional Pilot Lost Departing Melbourne's Pier 35 Helipad  Ultralight Pilot and Passenger Escape after Dunking in Dam in FNQ  Low-Time Private Pilot Successful Emergency Landing in Beech A36  West OZ Ultralight Prang Claims Two Experienced Recreational Pilots © AirCentre 1996 - Private Pilots are an Endangered Human Species in Australia from Lack of Support by Authorities   HOME