Pionair is operating BAe 146-200QC VH-SAZ (msn E2148) on behalf of Cobham Aviation Services. She was ferried to Perth on 26 November, and operated her first service, JTE720/721 to Karara Mine under one of Cobham’s FIFO contracts, on the following day. VH-SAZ will operate for Cobham for a few weeks […]
Cobham Aviation Services has received extensions of two of its fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) mining industry support contracts. Oz Minerals has contracted for Cobham to increase its services between Adelaide and the Carrapateena copper-gold project in South Australia’s far north from the current four flights a week to fourteen, using Avro RJ100s. […]
Cobham Aviation Services Avro RJ100 VH-NJP (msn E3354) experienced a fire in her number four engine on 6 November, shortly after departing Perth, on flight JTE 1990 to Barrow Island. The crew shut down the engine and returned to Perth, making an uneventful landing at 6:45 local time. Cobham operates […]
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 […]
