Kakadu Air

[Corvallis]

Heard they are trying to sell one of their airvan. It's on the market for sale today.

[iPahlot]

KNP I believe. It's been for sale for a little while. They own all of the airvans as far as I know so I wouldn't be reading too much in to it...

[SpyderPig]

Word on the field is they are grounded due to CP not passing an IPC or CP check. Which I'm not sure but they havnt been flying for a couple of weeks now

[Corvallis]

That's not good news. Hope everything becomes normal for them soon.

[Corvallis]

any news. are they still grounded?

did the CP pass his test.

[huntsman]

Apparently no. He failed again.

Kakadu Air have not been flying for around a month now.
Hope they get through this for the sake of the staff.

If they are selling off assets, at least they'll be able to drag it out for a while.

[Corvallis]

Hope they find replacement pilot soon. I am surprised they havnt advertised this time.

[iPahlot]

I've noticed one of their 402's has disappeared (not ZME, the other one). Was that a leased?

[The Zenith]

"PULL UP! PULL UP!"

Kakadu Air Services P/L

Reg Op for:

DZZ 208 Somerbrook P/L QLD
KNA GA-8
KNB GA-8
KNE GA-8
KNP GA-8
KNQ 208B
LGC 310R R&R Avionics NT
ZME 402C Aus Jet Victoria
ZMG 402C Aus Jet Victoria

Last Planned:
LGC 8th Sep YMGD to YJAB
KNQ 8th Sep YBTI TO YPDN
DZZ 22nd Jul YPDN to YBTI
ZMG 8th Oct YJAB to YPDN
ZME 13th Oct YLEC to YMEN

[Corvallis]

I saw ZME was gone. maybe the owners are taking their aircraft back. below is the info from flight aware for VH ZME.

14/10/2015 C402 Essendon (YMEN / MEB) Essendon (YMEN / MEB) 14:10 AEDT 14:23 AEDT Scheduled
13/10/2015 C402 Leigh Creek (YLEC / LGH) Essendon (YMEN / MEB) 22:46 ACDT 02:28 AEDT (+1) 3:12
13/10/2015 C402 Alice Springs (YBAS / ASP) Leigh Creek (YLEC / LGH) 17:46 ACST 21:46 ACDT (?) 2:59
12/10/2015 C402 RAAF Tindal (YPTN / KTR) Alice Springs (YBAS / ASP) 20:25 ACST 23:46 ACST 3:21
12/10/2015 C402 Darwin Int'l / RAAF (YPDN / DRW) RAAF Tindal (YPTN / KTR) 18:49 ACST 19:51 ACST 1:02

[Lasiorhinus]

Not good news out of Bob's office today. Wishing all the boys the best of luck in their next endeavour.

[Corvallis]

can you please explain what happend. last i heard was the new CP was going for the flight test today. Did he fail. I heard that they were going to be up and running next week.

[FoolCoarsePitch]

DZZ is going back into skydive ops.

[iPahlot]

I heard that one of the former CP's was going to come back and take of the reigns?

Having worked for Bob in the past it'd be terrible to see the company go under!

Unfortunately I did hear a rather worrying rumor about a haircut that wasn't appreciated by certain people...

[Hasselhof]

Job ad on AFAP just now on the look out for a CP. Obviously something hasn't gone to plan

[JC91]

anyone looked on av trader in the "business for sale section"?
http://www.aviationtrader.com.au/adv...ght-operation/

[iPahlot]

Oh no....

Sad day indeed

[iPahlot]

I'm sure he's got a reason, but why doesn't Kakadu Bob just forgo the RPT side which is making hiring a CP so hard and go back to operating airvans and caravans? He would have more than enough experience in-house to get a CP going for that...

[SpyderPig]

I'm sure he's got a reason, but why doesn't Kakadu Bob just forgo the RPT side which is making hiring a CP so hard and go back to operating airvans and caravans? He would have more than enough experience in-house to get a CP going for that...

Then the $500k he spent obtaining ASETPA and RPT on his AOC would have been a huge waste of time and money....

[caa]

Interesting what he is actually selling. No Airvans and No AOC (that is all the big $ except the C208 and Darwin assets).

But that all paid for the Darwin adventure I expect and the previous Arnhem adventure??

Could be a very cheap buy if you have a AOC and a few C207. lol