![]() A Request for Tender emerged seven months later with Second Pass approval anticipated in 2010-12 and Initial Operating Capability (IOC) in 2012-2014.Īcquisition cost at the lower end of a $300-$500 million band was adjusted in the December 2010 Defence Capability Plan (DCP) Update to the low end of a $100-$300 million band and IOC was refined to 2011-2013. The expansion abroad of the company’s target towing and target supply business has helped offset what appears to be an almost endemic delay in Joint Project 66, the introduction of a new Air Defence Target System for the ADF through a service contract.įirst pass was achieved in March 2009 and a Request for Information was released to industry the same month. However, he confirms the modifications include wing hard points and extension wiring throughout the aircraft for a variety of research programs. Air Affairs managing director Chris Sievers says it will be used for research and development and operational test and evaluation ‘in the region’, but declines to give any details. The new Learjet will enter service in the second half of this year. The company is also involved in aircraft maintenance, engineering, and bushfire mapping. The two activities neatly encapsulate Air Affairs’ focus on the manufacture, operation and maintenance of target drone systems, aerial towed targets and sub-systems. While company engineers work on the special mission modifications and an avionics upgrade to the new Learjet in one hangar, construction of jet-powered Phoenix target drones continues in a nearby workshop. At a time when many SMEs in the defence industry are suffering from a slowdown in Defence contracts, Nowra-based aviation company Air Affairs Australia has bucked the trend by purchasing a second special mission Learjet 35A and are just completing a third purpose-built hangar at its facility in the Albatross Aviation Technology Park adjacent to HMAS Albatross.
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