Airtex Aviation

As of December 2009, the Airtex fleet consisted of:

1 Cessna 340

2 Fairchild SA227-AC Metro III

10 Piper PA-31-350 Chieftain

Incidents and accidents

On 25 June 2001, an Airtex Aviation Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante aircraft with nine people on board transmitted a mayday call on its approach to the airport in the town of Cootamundra, New South Wales. The pilot reported smoke in the cabin and an engine and gear failure, followed by instructing the passengers to adopt the "brace position". The aircraft touched down and skidded 400 metres (437 yards) with its right engine in flames. All passengers survived the crash.

On 9 April 2008, at 23:30, an Airtex Aviation Fairchild Metro III aircraft took off from Sydney Airport in Sydney, bound for Brisbane with a consignment of air freight. Shortly after takeoff, ten nautical miles (18.5 km / 11.5 miles) southeast of the airport, the aircraft turned contrary to instructions from air traffic control, initially to the right when the controller had instructed a left turn. The pilot responded that he was experiencing "minor technical problems". The aircraft disappeared from radar at a height of 4,000 ft (1,219 metres). The wreckage was located on the seabed nine kilometres south-east of Bundeena.

On 15 June 2010, an Airtex Aviation Piper PA-31 Mojave clipped power lines and crashed in Canley Vale in Sydney's south-west shortly after take-off from Bankstown Airport. The pilot and flight nurse were killed.