Air Link (LZ, Dubbo) has added its first Pilatus PC-12, with Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) records showing the carrier registered VH-AL4 (msn 1314) in mid-June. According to Air Link's social media platforms, the eight-passenger, eleven-year-old Pilatus Aircraft is now available for charter out of Sydney Bankstown. ADS-B flight tracking data shows the aircraft ferried into Australia on August 3, 2024.
CASA records show the registration holder is an entity called Metro Holdings Australia Pty Ltd. That entity is also the registration holder of multiple other aircraft flown by Air Link and affiliated aeromedical operator AirMed (Bankstown). Australian company records show Air Link is owned by Aviation Logistics Holdings Pty Ltd. The directors of that company are Matthew Kline and Mark Wardrop. Kline is also the co-CEO and an executive director of Air Link, AirMed, and executive director of Chartair (Australia) (Darwin), among others. Wardrop is an executive director at Air Link and a director at Chartair and AirMed.
In addition to operating scheduled passenger flights from Dubbo to Walgett, Lightning Ridge, and Bourke in far western New South Wales using Piper (twin piston) PA31s and Cessna (twin piston) 310Rs, Air Link has a busy charter operation with bases in Dubbo and Bankstown using Cessna 510s, Beech (twin turboprop) King Airs, and now the Pilatus PC-12.
