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DerekB09/03/202609/03/2026

Outlook AHSA Newsletter February 2026

The AHSA newsletter, Outlook, is back - with a new editor, Jarryd Cripps. The February 2026 edition of Outlook / AHSA News was distributed...
DerekB30/09/202319/11/2023

Aviation Heritage Vol. 54 No. 3 (September 2023) Contents Listing

The latest quarterly AHSA journal – Aviation Heritage – has recently been posted to members. The contents of all articles are listed below: Aviation...
DerekB30/11/202223/11/2024

Australian aviation history digital archive

In its mission to preserve and promote Australia's aviation heritage, the AHSA hosts the following digital archives. Click on the image to go to...
DerekB27/04/202204/06/2023

The Aircraft Projects of Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation

This new book by author and AHSA member Joe Vella has just been published (April 2022). Joe began writing this book in 1983 when...
DerekB29/09/202027/12/2022

Australian-built Aircraft and the Industry (Vol 2) by Keith Meggs

The latest book released by author Keith Meggs Volume 2 of this encyclopaedic work (containing only one chapter, being chapter 15, spread across two...

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On this day in Australian aviation history:

1982 Student pilot Philip Henryk Wozniak stole Socata Tobago TB10 VH-BXC of Australian Flying Training School from Bankstown airport on 16 September 1982 and took off. After circling the airport for a short time, he dived the aircraft into the ground, destroying Piaggio P.166 VH-CAC (c/n 375) of Confederate Airways and damaging Douglas C-47-DL (c/n 6108) VH-SBO beyond repair. Nobody on the ground was hurt. Source: aviation-safety.net website
2006 In an incident that raised the matter of regulatory standards and the use of Instrument Landing Systems, at 0038 Western Standard Time on 16 September 2006, Qantas Airbus A330 VH-QPJ landed on runway 21 at Perth Airport in fog conditions that were below the applicable landing standard. The aircraft, on a scheduled passenger flight from Singapore to Perth had to abort landing twice and had insufficient fuel to divert to an alternative airfield. Based on the lack of alternatives, low fuel and the intention to conduct an approach below minima, the crew transmitted a Mayday to ATC and conducted an automatic landing in darkness. Source: ATSB, Aviation Safety Investigation Report AE-2006-05473, 20 August 2007. via aph.gov.au website

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