Archives 2004 December 1 Corporate Jet Charter Owner and Chief Pilot in Legal Wrangle Expensive Citation Jet Impounded by Papua New Guinea Authorities Media Fascination Over Freight Aircraft Ditching - Solo Non-Stop Around Globe 2 Family Outing Flying Kites Turns Tragic at Lahore in Pakistan Recent Annual Kite Flying Festival Claim 7 Lives - Total 20 for Year Cherokee Six Lands Short of Runway at Parafield in South OZ 3 Controllers Win Tender for Management of USA Style Control Tower Airspace Expertise Exported at Expense of Aircraft Owners & Pilots Another Fire-Ant Bell 47 Down at Purga - 2 Escape Ultralight Prang at Collinsville World's Most Expensive Jet Fighter Ends Up in a Ball-of-Flame on Take-Off 4 OZ Authorities Confirm Light Aircraft Fatal Accidents Improvement Fatal Accidents and Private Flying Continue to Fall from 1980's Peak New Year Expectations - Global Non-Stop Solo Flight - Ligeti Stratos to Fly Again November 1 Government Dupes VFR Pilots Over New Airspace Arrangements Airservices Planned Changes to Go Ahead Despite Political Promises Avro Vulcan 'V' Bomber For-Sale - Maverick Chopper Crew at Gold Coast - "If You Fly a Retractable U/C Aircraft" - Qantas Jet Brake Failure at Isa 2 Drama Continues Over Changes to VFR Flight in Controlled Areas Private Pilot Groups Highlight Poor Airspace Design by Airservices Ultralight Pilot Fails in Conviction Appeal - First OZ Pilot Jailed for Buzzing House - Two Pilots Survive Accidents - Cropduster at Laidley :: Ultralight at Roma 3 OZ Airspace Procedures set to Return to be "Uniquely Australian" Dick Smith Fails in Bid to Upgrade OZ Airspace to World Standards Crosswind Landing Claims PA-28R in NSW - VFR Aircraft and 'Airways Clearance' 4 OZ Controlled Airspace Increased Despite Lack of Radar Control Amended NAS Implemented by Airservices after CASA Approval Airservices Boss Smith Resigns - Dick Smith Defeated by Airservices - Airspace Directorate Mooted 2002 - Ultralight Accident Claims Father/Son - ATSB Report #2 on Benalla Accident - Locust Control Helicopter Claims 2 - G-111 Executive Jet Claims 3 - Co-Pilot Takes On Captain's Job-Passenger Takes On Co-Pilot's Job October 1 Aviation "ON SHOW" - Rutan's Team Take Out Space X-Prize Aussie Ferry Pilot Rescued from Middle of Pacific Ocean Tourists on Joy-Flight Swim to Safety after Floatplane Force Lands at Gold Coast - Amberley Military Air Base Air-Show - Performer Fatality at USA Air-Show 2 Personal Emergency Locater Transmitter Saves Two Lives Couple on Flying Holiday in Ultralight Rescued from Desert Archerfield in Bush Fire Emergency - Outback Gyrocopter Prang Claims Pilot 3 A Current Affair TV Report Exposes Deficiency in OZ Airspace Air Traffic Controllers Suspended over Benalla Prop-Jet Accident OZ Government Anti-Theft Measures - B747 Freighter Down in Canada - Ferry Pilot Back Home - Medical Condition Claims Pilot - Stolen Aircraft Embarrass the French 4 Dick Smith Drops Airservices Court Action over Changes to NAS Airservices in "Hot Seat" - Government on Record to Implement NAS OZ Citation Jet Impounded by PNG's CAA - LOST in FLIGHT = 1 x B747 Jet Engine September 1 GPS Position Error in Benalla Piper Cheyenne Accident Corporate Prop-Jet on Approach with False Lat.Long Entered The Latest in Jet-Powered "Go Fly Yourself" Flying Machines 2 New OZ Airspace Model Sabotaged by Self-Interest Parties NAS Airspace Reform Forced Back to Pre-November 2003 Status Media Alert for King-Air Passenger Door - Legendary Station Owner Lost in R44 3 Dick Smith Takes-On Airservices in Federal Court Action "Not Happy" with Authorities Returning to Previous System USA F/A-18 Hornet Lost at Tindal - King-Air Passenger Door Recovered 4 "If You Have the Money - We will get You There" Flight into Space Conceivable - Cost Only About $250,000 (US) Scare in Qantas Flight near Canberra - Jittery Baggage Handlers at Sydney Undercarriage Failures Expensive - Norwegian Pilots Attacked with Axe - Modern Ford Tri-Motor Replica Prang - Pictorial History of Archerfield's Hangar 3 August 1 Regulator Enforcers Create Crash Repair Work Downturn in Accident Repair Work at Archerfield Reversed PA-34 Undergoing Pilot Refresher Flying Damaged but Flown Back to Archerfield 2 Downturn in Private Flying in OZ Evident at Archerfield Lack of "Bush" Pilots and Cessna's for RNA Public Show Day PA-31 Chieftain Lands on Darwin Beach - USA's 52nd Oshkosh Air Show Stats - Silvester's Cousin Creates Chaos on Flight Deck of Passenger Jet 3 Mooney Lost at Sea after Night Flight from Cobar to Caloundra Low-Level Over-fly and Pull-up May Have Contributed to Accident The Body of the Pilot and Aircraft Remains Recovered from the Sea Bed 3 days Later 4 Terrorism Brings Down Two Russian Passenger Jets Tu-134 and Tu-154 Airliners Bombed by Female Passengers Swiss Cessna 421 Fatality in WA - Olympic Athletes in Flight Drama - Military Jet Takes Out Ultralight - Gatton Ultralight Prang July 1 Private Flying in Light Aircraft the Safest Method of Travel It's So Safe that Job Loses are Now a Real Possibility Lack of Light Aircraft Crashes Creates Concern for All in Support Industries 2 Airline Pilots Sacked in USA for "Drinking and Flying" Indicted by Grand Jury on Federal Charge - 15 Years Jail IF Guilty "INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK" 3 Qantas Jetstar Passengers Upset by Low-Level Manoeuvre Jet Departing Hamilton Island Turns to Avoid Incoming Qantas Traffic Prang Round-up --- Katoomba - 3 Injured --- Archerfield Baron - Mt Hagen PNG - Veteran WW2 P-51D Mustang Damaged in the UK 4 Two Corporate Aircraft Lost - Cheyenne Prop-Jet and Augusta Helicopter Piper Cheyenne Accident Claims 6 Lives in Victoria - Helicopter Prang Helicopter Lost in Brisbane River - Twin Otter Freighter Lost in PNG Jungle - PA-32 Stolen from St. George in QLD - Ultralight Claims 1 Rotary Wing 0 - The Debate:- Are Twins Safer than Single Engine Aircraft?-You be the Judge June 1 Supreme Court Issues Judgement Over Sub-Lease of Hangar Timely Action by Owner Avoids Complete Loss of Ownership Melksham-V-Archerfield Airport - Airport Security Breached by Graffiti Attack - Private Cessna C206 Down at Laguna Keys Proserpine 2 RAAF Sell Off British Aerospace/Hawker Siddeley HS748 Fleet Five Twin Engine Prop-jets and Spares For-Sale by Tender HS748 Down in Libreville Africa - 'Heavy' Runs Off Runway on Landing in USA 3 After a Decade of Waiting a War Establishes a Need Seabird Aviation Seeker Reconnaissance Aircraft Sale Cessna C150 Take-Off Drama at Gladstone - Smoking RAAF Hercules Emergency - Two OZe Skydivers Lost in Indonesia 4 SpaceShipOne Space Flight Piloted by Mike Melvill Successful World's First 'Private Astronaut' Created for the Record Books Hangar Builder Steve Hart Jailed - Homebuilt F9F Panther Jet Fighter Replica May 1 News Helicopter in the USA Looses Control after Tail Rotor Failure Amazing Escape for Three Crew Members on Board Media 'Eyes' Catch Skyfox Flying Under Bridge - Professional Airshow Pilot Lost in USA - OZ Mid-Air Statistics Over the Last 42 Years - Safer Flying than Marriage for QLD Females 2 ATR-72 Wrecked on Landing at Puerto Rico in The Bahamas Heavy Landing in 70 Seat Prop-Jet Injured Passengers and Crew Archerfield and Holly Star in TV Advertisement - Ag-Cat Stolen from Station Property in SW QLD - PA-32R Aborts Take-Off at Winton and Hits Fence 3 Private Flight into Space Draws Closer with Test Flight Rutan Designed Melvill Piloted SpaceShipOne Enters Near-Space New Home for OZe WW2 Hudson - Caboolture Air-Show Report - Three New Cirrus Aircraft Arrive at Archerfield 4 Sojourn in Space a Real Possibility for Adventure Seekers World's First Commercial Spaceport Awaits Operating Licence News Media "Excited" over Light Aircraft Accident - Heavy in Tail-Heavy Incident - LYC-540 That's Not a Lycoming - Helicopter Accident Claims Life in Central OZ April 1 It Only Takes Time and Money - for WW2 Fighter "New" Russian Yak-9's First Flight at Archerfield Shopping Centre Youth a Menace to Jets - Fire-Ant Bating Bell-47 Down in Canal - Gyrocopter Disintegrates in Flight near Esk 2 Concept of an Aircraft with Emergency Parachute Successful Two Cirrus Aircraft Deploy their 'Chutes Saving 5 Lives Buzzing X-Wife in Ultralight Lands Pilot/Instructor in Jail - Private Space Trip Moves Closer with Test Flight - GCA Military Radar at Archerfield - Homebuilt Aircraft Chinese Style Attracts Media - March Viewer Statistics 3 Hangar Owners at Archerfield Unable to Change Lease Airport Operator Creating Drama for Aircraft Servicing More Drama With Undercarriages Elsewhere - OZ Air Controllers Lack Education on USA Airspace Model - Free-falling Skydiver Ends Up Inside Aircraft 4 ATSB Report on Virgin Jet and Light Aircraft Challenged Dick Smith Finds "No Fault" Unacceptable on TCAS Activation UK Gyrocopter Pilot in Solo World Flight Attempt - German Military Tornado's Collide Claiming Two Lives - Boeing 727 Used in 'Mile Zero High Club' --- Late Breaking News --- OZ New Airspace Reform to Continue March 1 The Age of Private Pilots and Aircraft in Oz Increasing Oldies in 'Vintage' Aircraft Escape Injury after Engine Failure Power-lines in Texas USA Snare Stolen Cessna C172 Flying in Fog 2 Erratic Flying Style Lands Boeing B737 Pilot with Hefty Fine Captain Found Drunk at the Wheel after Passengers Complain Lightweight Aircraft involved in Accidents Continue to Claim Lives - Ultralight used for Business in Far North QLD - Female Glider Pilot in Victoria 3 OZ Regulators Considering Testing Pilots for Drugs & Alcohol Alcohol-Drug Mix may have Contributed to Fatal Accident Rare Fouga CM170 Magister Jet Trainer Warbird Lost in Kiwi Land 4 Hypersonic Flight Moves Closer to Becoming a Reality NASA's X-43A Scramjet Reaches Mach 7 in Test Flight Fire Engulfs F/A-18 on Take-Off in USA - Fire Emergency at Archerfield - Movie STARS - The DC4 and Holly Valance February 1 Pilot Training Accidents Replace Private Flying as High Risk The Perils Associated with the Training of Pilots in OZ Increase 'Heavy' Entertainment at the Expense of Others - Successful Ejection 8/10ths of a Second Before Impact - OZ Military Orders Global-Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2 Power Lines Bring Down Piper Cherokee on Adventure Flight Four Lives Needlessly Lost by Unmarked Lines Spanning Lake Fokker 50 Crash Claims 44 Lives in Middle East - Black Hawk Helicopter Down South West of AF - R22 Helicopter Down on Bribie Island - Cessna C208 Float Plane Landing Mishap in FNQ - News Desk Communique on News Flash Issues 3 Amendments for New Airspace Procedures to be Implemented Airservices Back-Flip on the Manning of Control Towers Chuck Yeager's Sound Barrier Blast from the Past - Ultralights/Hang-gliding Accidents Claim Three Lives - Female Pilot and Aero Commander Lost in Tassie 4 Family Man Takes Revenge over Loss of Wife and Children Air-Controller Slain over Error that caused Midair Collision Ultra-light Accident Claims Another Life - OZe Chopper Pilot Killed in Afghanistan - Macedonian President Killed in Beech 200 Accident in Bosnia January 1 Passenger Jets Overseas have Bad Week with Accidents 148 Lives Lost in B737 Charter and Fokker 70 Lands in Paddock Electrical Fire Consumes Citabria at Camden - Bad Times for Kiwi Built Aircraft Light Aircraft Fatalities in OZ -v- Road Toll Over National Holiday Period 2 OZ Air Traffic Controllers Union Not Happy With New System "Transponders ON in Light Aircraft Increases Air Safety For All" Fog Claims 37 Lives in Yak-40 in Uzbekistan - Air Leak Found on Space Station Steve Fossett Plans Solo 3 Day Non-Stop Circumnavigation of Globe 3 A300 Airbus Freighter Jet Controlled by Engines Only Emergency Landing in Baghdad Brings Out The Best in DHL Pilots FNQ Ground Effect "Air-Craft" Company in Liquidation - Auction in Cairns 4 Hazardous Occupation with Training of Pilots in OZ Multi-engine Endorsement Error Claims Instructor and Pilot Undercarriage Collapses in Retractable Aircraft at Bankstown and Essendon © AirCentre 1996 - Private Pilots are an Endangered Human Species in Australia from Lack of Support by Authorities   HOME