Cobham Aviation Services‘s contract to provide flights between Perth and Barrow Island in support of Chevron’s operations and projects in Western Australia has been renewed for a further five years. Cobham has been flying for Chevron since 2010. Flights to Barrow Island require special precautions to avoid damaging the Class […]
Canadian Avro RJ operator Summit Air is planning to open a new base at Calgary, complementing its existing base at Edmonton. The new base, which is expected to be operational by the summer, will help support Summit’s fly-in-fly-out operations on behalf of mining companies. Summit Air has been operating two Avro RJ85s […]
Australia’s Cobham Aviation Services has won a new fly-in, fly-out (FIFO). Under the two-year contract, Cobham will operate up to 20 flights a week between Adelaide and the OZ Minerals copper-gold mine at Prominent Hill, in northern South Australia. The flights will begin in August and will be undertaken with a mix of jets […]
Cobham Aviation Services has won another contract to provide Fly-In, Fly-Out (FIFO) services, this time from new company Blackham Resources – Matilda Operations Pty. Under the new contract, Cobham began operating a 71-seat BAe 146-100 twice a week from Perth to the Wiluna gold mining site in Western Australia on 20 […]
Cobham Aviation Services has secured a new contract from the Doray Minerals Limited gold mining company to provide fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) services between Perth and the Andy Well Gold Project mining site at Meekatharra, in Western Australia. The services will be operated twice a week, beginning on 2 August, using […]
Cobham Aviation has added a second Avro RJ85 to its fleet. G-CIKF (msn E2287 ex OO-DJP) was the last RJ85 to be operated by Brussels Airlines. After a brief period of storage at Exeter and some attention by Flybe Engineering, she was ferried to Cranfield on 23 January for additional […]
The European Aviation Safety Authority (EASA) has approved an increase in Maximum Take-off Weight (MTOW) of up to four tonnes for BAe 146s and Avro RJs operating from an unpaved runway at Kambalda, in Western Australia. Hitherto, MTOW had been limited when operating from unpaved runways due to the potential […]
Australia’s Cobham Aviation Services has won a new four-year contract from Gold Fields Australia to operate fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) services. The contract calls for Cobham to operate six roundtrip flights a week to the gravel strips serving Gold Fields Australia’s Granny Smith and Darlot mining sites in Western Australia, both […]
Summit Aviation is planning to acquire an Avro RJ85 for operations in northern Canada. The RJ85, to be introduced this summer, will be used to support Rio Tinto’s Diavik Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories, about 500 km northeast of Yellowknife. Regular flights will be operated between Edmonton and the […]
BAe 146-200 CC-CZP (msn E2042) of Aerovías DAP took over the mining industry flights from sistership CC-ACO (msn E2094) in mid November. CC-ACO had been operating the mining flights since early June. Like CC-ACO, CC-CZP has been painted with ‘Mineral Airways’ titles. CC-ACO has returned to DAP’s base at Punta […]
